Re: [xml-dev] XFORMS

[Robin La Fontaine <robin@deltaxml.com>]

Greg,

The reference below is to a paper which reviewed various forms 
technologies in November 2004, a little out of date now but may be 
useful to you. We were looking to use them as an interface for conflict 
resolution but at the time they were not up to it.

http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/191/ffa.html

Regards,
Robin

Williams, Greg - ETA wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am in the process of installing formsPlayer. I have been corresponding
> with some one from formsPlayer. It sounds like formsPlayer will fit my
> needs. I was told that formsPlayer was used to develop an application on
> a laptop using Oracle Lite. I plan to use Oracle Lite on a PDA,
> hopefully this will work the same as a laptop.
> 
> Thank you and the rest of the people on this listserv for their input on
> this matter.
> 
> "its not over until you win"
> Les Brown
>  
> Gregory Williams
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlo Innocenti [mailto:minollo@minollo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:43 AM
> To: Elliotte Harold
> Cc: XML Developers List
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XFORMS
> 
> 
> Have you looked at formsPlayer?
>    http://www.formsplayer.com/content/index.html
> 
> Minollo
> http://www.stylusstudio.com
> 
> 
> At 09:23 AM 1/31/2006, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> 
>>Fraser Goffin wrote:
>>
>>>As Mike says there are a number of successful 'server-side'
>>>implementations in use (we use one in an industry portal), but IMO 
>>>it is unlikely to gain much traction client-side (can't see MS 
>>>supporting it since they have their own solution to this and IE 
>>>usage remains 90%+ commercially).
>>
>>As I've said before, that's irrelevant. If there's a good, free
>>client side implementation that is better than the alternatives for 
>>developing web apps, some intranets will use it. It can grow from 
>>there to take over the market. This has happened before. This is 
>>*exactly* how IE and AJAX got into the position they're in today.
>>
>>Of course, this only works if there actually is a good client side
>>implementation bundled with a browser that lets developers do things 
>>they can't easily do today with alternative technologies.
> 
> 
> 
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