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Opera XForms Alternative

Opera Proposes XForms Alternative: Web Forms 2.0 (via Erik)

Ian Hickson who works for the Opera browser company
(in Norway) has spent the last few months on an
alternative XForms proposal called Web Forms 2.0 that
extends HTML4 and rejects the XML above-all-else craze
(eg. namespaces, XPath bindings, scripting is evil,
and so on)

Sounds good to me

For the past few months I've been working on a
proposal to extend HTML4 Forms in a backwards
compatible manner, to address the needs that were not
covered by XForms 1.0.

Note: This specification is not just blue-sky work,
there is a good chance that large parts of it will be
implemented in several user agents in the medium-term
future.

Ian also lets us know that Opera has no intension to
add the bloated, hypercomplex XForms machinery to its
browser offering anytime soon.

Here's the proposed specification: Web Forms 2.0

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