[html4all] forms task force

[Robert J Burns]

Meant to include a link to the mail archive:

<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms-tf/>

On Jun 7, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Robert J Burns wrote:

> Hello 4all (and especially Gregory),
>
> I was just looking over the activity (inactivity?) of the forms task
> force. Has anyone laid out the precise issues surrounding XForms or
> WebForms 2.0 regarding backwards compatibility with legacy UAs. They
> both seem to have problems, but XForms woul be a much more ideal state
> to achieve than WebForms from an authoring and user standpoint. For
> XForms, I can see that the INPUT element has problems since its
> defined as canonically empty in HTML and as containing labels in
> XForms. I imagine there are other issues, but it would be nice to see
> them laid out on the wiki or somewhere else so that the task force
> members (and the two WGs’ members) were all on the same page.
>
> It also looks to me that this could be easily addressed by again
> including a namespace mechanism in the text/html serialization
> (possibly with a default namespace declaration prefix for
> “xmlns:xforms”).
>
> Take care,
> Rob
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