PUBLIC MARKS from nhoizey with tag xforms

"With Yahoo! Blueprint 1.1, it has never been easier to build rich, compelling mobile services in record time. Blueprint 1.1 allows you to use simple XML to create applications, sites and widgets that run on thousands of mobile devices."

Yowl is a way of providing notifications to users of web applications, but in a way that the user themselves can control. It was inspired by Growl, which runs on the Mac

Orbeon Forms is an open source forms solution that handles the complexity of forms typical of the enterprise or government. It is brought to standard web browsers (including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera) thanks to Ajax technology, with no need for client-side software or plugins. Orbeon Forms allows you to build fully interactive forms with features that include as-you-type validation, optional and repeated sections, always up-to-date error summaries, PDF output, full internationalization, and controls like auto-completion, tabs, dialogs, trees and menus.

ActiveGrid est un environnement de réalisation d’applications WEB totalement intégré qui repose entièrement sur les standards XML les plus récents : BPEL, XForms, WSDL, XML Schema, XACML. L’offre d’ActiveGrid est composée d’un builder et d’un server, tout ça dans une architecture LAMP (le P devant se comprendre essentiellement pour Python).

Orbeon PresentationServer is an open source platform that uses standard XForms to make your form-based web applications more user-friendly and simpler to create. OPS is built around a user-friendly Ajax-based XForms engine, which brings standard W3C XForms to mainstream browsers, and the XPL engine, a mature, high-performance XML pipeline engine for processing XML data.

with XForms and Web Forms 2.0 on the rise, this is probably going to change. But what are they? What are their new features? And more importantly, which one is going to be superior?

the XHTML to XForms converter offers an easy possibility to transform these legacy forms into the new XForms format standardised via the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

XFORMS est le langage XML du W3C dont l'optique est de remplacer à terme les formulaires HTML (que j'appelerai ici les HTMLForms). Son objectif est de combler les nombreuses limitations de ceux-ci et de faciliter leur écriture en évitant la dépendance vis à vis d'un langage de script.