- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:06:20 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
> From: Robert Diblasi [SMTP:Rdiblas@wpo.it.luc.edu] > > A WWW3 technology called XForms may be th enswer to the problem the > David ask: > >however, the one commonly used feature of HTML that seems to be missing > is forms. > > XForms states on the activities page: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ [DJW:] I need to understand how mixed namespaces will work better, but anything that is going to work for ordinary content authors needs to appear to be a single language. They can probably cope with namespace labels, treating them as just part of the arcanity forming a composite "tag" (really element) name, but what they really want is not SVG, or even HTML, but a single commercial web page authoring language. SVG looks very close to such a language for all except forms! If W3C doesn't write a specification for such a language, a lot of the popular web designers will, effectively, try to do so. (A quick look at the early XForms material suggests that it is most appropriate for intranet, data intensive applications, whereas heavily graphical pages are likely to have just a search box, or user name and password fields on them. I'd expect such pages to use animation for many pulldown lists. It appears to be presentation independent, which means you need something else to describe the apperance of the controls.) -- --------------------------- 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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