The Rise of XForms?

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HTML forms have certainly begun to show their age. In order to get them to work reasonably, they are often augmented with a significant amount of JavaScript. Most of the time, such script is used simply to make sure that simple data filters are applied to form fields. HTML forms are also not well-suited to be transformed into other display environments beyond a computer even when all accessibility additions such as label, fieldset , and so on are in use. And just as CSS solved the problem of mixing presentation with our markup, in the case of forms, we now have mixed logic into the markup. Shouldn't this be decoupled from the markup as well? The new XForms specification (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/) addresses all these issues and more, and under XHTML 2 and beyond, XForms should replace traditional HTML form elements. However, despite all this, so far their use is limited only to those environments with heavy investment in XML and even then their use is questionable, given that no major browser is supporting them as of yet.



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HTML & XHTML
HTML & XHTML: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)
ISBN: 007222942X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 252
Authors: Thomas Powell

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