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XForms Becomes A Recommendation

Relates to Web Standards and XForms

XForm 1.0 and the accompanying XML Events have finally been released as W3C Recommendations.

XForms separate presentation and content, minimise round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and, using XML Events, reduce the need for scripting. Archive of W3C News in 2003

To get plenty of practice with this exciting technology, the latest version of Forms Player now claims to be fully conforming to the recommendation. This is an easy to install plug in for Internet Explorer, making it quick and lightweight relative to the X-Smiles Java Browser.

I have been working extensively on developing accessible web forms with standard XHTML, CSS, DOM and PHP recently. It will be interesting to see what hurdles, if any, this new offering creates.

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:43:49.