XForms and Mozilla
Posted by Antoine Quint apropos on Tue Nov 16th, 2004 at 09:36:52 BST
While at the first CDF meeting last week, I met Kevin Kelly from IBM. Kevin is an XForms Working Group member. I was curious about the press release I saw a while back announcing IBM and Novell teaming up to bring XForms natively to the Mozilla platform. According to Kevin, IBM and Novell are on pretty fast track, and are hoping for a stablilized codebase as early as early spring next year. This will allow for XForms to be treated, like other technologies such as XHTML, CSS, XUL or, in a more restricted manner, SVG, as a first-class citizen markup-wise.
Lately, I have been disappointed that Mozilla was focusing most of its innovation on the user agent user interface, as opposed to support for newer XML-based standards. I understand the importance to have products like Firefox and Thunderbird around, which ensure choice on the Internet, a major mission of the Mozilla Foundation. Now it does not seem that Mozilla Foundation employees actually put in many man-hours in the XForms bit; but the fact that the Foundation let others make it possible for XForms to exist in Mozilla, while many of its active supporters and developers have expressed concerns about XForms, is great news and really reassuring.
You can keep track of where the Mozilla XForms Project is headed by checking out the feature implementation status. Incidentally, a new Working Draft of XForms 1.1 has just been released yesterday.
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