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February 17, 2005
CNet: Form Wars
News.com: Fight over 'forms' clouds future of Net applications.
A nice article, though they seem to confuse the Mozilla XForms support as not being native - it is native support, but added as an extension (extensible browser!). Natrually, its a Festa article, so its expected.
And what exactly is a "Web Standard"? If we go by what is used a lot, does that count ActiveX?
Posted by doron at February 17, 2005 9:21 PM
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That depends on what you call "native". For ordinary users add-ons are not native regardless of how they are written. To them it doesn't matter is it is a native extension or some other plugin, all that matters it is not part of the basic install.
Posted by: Henrik Lynggaard at February 17, 2005 11:28 PM
Screw XForms, if they'd just implement XSL-FO I could stop being such a damn slave to adobe and go back to what my normal job is supposed to be.
Posted by: Ryan at February 18, 2005 7:40 AM
He does a pretty good job in the article of showing the disparity of the interested makers of forms technology. Each vendor/group has their own somewhat incongruous agenda.
It is fine for the w3c to say something is a web standard because it made it through a standardization process, but if it fails to get widely deployed is it really a "web standard"? I would say a "web standard" is the cross pollination between an open specification and some amount of popularity in deployment. XForms is in limbo right now because of lackluster support in UAs. Hopefully mozillas implementation will move XForms into the "web standard" direction more...
Posted by: modok at February 18, 2005 10:04 AM