Although the technology seems promising, I think the W3C should not turn new ideas into specifications until the existing XML stuff is wholly implemented and widely spread
Schemas are an example of a useful technology that is still just a technology on paper, the only real-world implementation (IE's) has been out-dated
I think this is not the way to have XML up and running, it's just a way to make a Science Fiction Movie, without letting anybody watch it, till Science out-dated it...
XForms a a lot of dependencies on other XML and other technologies, XML Schema, XPath, XML namespaces, some advanced CSS stuff, ... This is certainly a burden when thinking on how to implement XForms in a Web Browser. Web Browsers are good in HTML, but they still need to "learn" a lot of XML. However, XForms is just one of an increasing nmuber of reasons why Web Browsers will "learn" more XML.
XForms plugins for IE, XForms implementation for Mozilla are evidence that the job can be done.
XForms
2001-09-09 04:37:17 Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer
I violantly disagree with smartguy16! Why on
earth do some people think everything the W3C
produces has to end up in MS IE, and if it *doesn't*, it's a failure? Given this thinking, the W3C should have seized its operations after the browser wars, never releasing such important
technologies like XML, XSLT, and yes, XSchema
and now XForms. Complete bullshit, really.
Good and important technologies win, even without
Microsoft's help. This was proven by the W3C
and its members several times. XForms *isn't* Science Fiction, it is extremely real, just like XSLT, XSchema and XML itself.
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