Will XForms Matter?
January 6, 2004
My recent column on XForms is now live on the Transform Magazine site. To briefly quote:
XML was born when a bunch of very smart people realized that HTML, while easy to use and widely deployed, wasn’t a robust enough technology to build the Web infrastructure and interfaces of the future. While there is still plenty of HTML around, many of the underpinnings of the Web are now based on XML. Virtually every mid- to large-sized organization uses XML to store, transform or integrate various data sources that end up on the Web. The emerging XForms standard was born out of much the same motivation as the language on which it is based; a bunch of very smart people realized HTML-based forms were not a long-term solution to building user interfaces and data collection and validation tools for the Web. As a result, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) established a forms working group years ago. Their first formal recommendation, XForms 1.0, was issued in November.
Also on XForms specifically and EForms in general: I will be moderating a session on "Electronic Forms and Content Management" at the upcoming Gilbane Conference on Content Management, to be held March 24-26 in Los Angeles. Confirmed speakers thus far are Chuck Myers from Adobe and Micah Dubinko from Cardiff. Chuck is a great speaker and is Technology Strategist at Adobe. Micah literally wrote the book on Xforms.
Posted by Bill Trippe at January 6, 2004 9:03 PM
