- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:13:31 +0100
- To: "'www-svg@w3.org'" <www-svg@w3.org>
Like it or not (and I don't particularly like it) SVG is likely to become the replacement for HTML on commercial web pages, as it is a much better fit for the requirements of advertising copy. However, the one commonly used feature of HTML that seems to be missing is forms. Whilst I'm sure that one could somehow mix HTML forms elements with SVG (although I have reservations about early, plug-in based, solutions) the result is likely to various ad hoc, cook book type solutions, bringing back the same sort of problems that arise as the result of trying to use HTML as a page description language. PDF, which I consider to be the main ancestor of SVG, does have a forms capability. I think, therefore, that the inevitable fate of SVG should be taken into account and forms included before people start working round the lack of them, or, failing that, a non-normative appendix should be included giving approved cook-book solutions for creating forms. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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