W3C XForms Spec Now Proposed Recommendation

Hi,

  Leigh L. Klotz (a W3C XForms spec co-author) has
posted a story at slashdot that XForms is now a
proposed recommendation. 

   If I may quote:

  The W3C has announced that XForms is now a Proposed
Recommendation, after certification of one full
implementation (open source Java XSmiles from Finland)
and two more implementations of each feature (the
Internet Exploder plug-in FormsPlayer and the Java
standalone Novell xPlorer). 
   
   XForms is the next generation of forms for the Web,
and uses an XML-based three-layer model: data model,
data, and user interface. XForms uses CSS for device
independencence and is designed for integration into
XHTML 2, SVG, and other XML-based markup languages. A
host of other implementations are available or in
progress, but my pick for most interesting is DENG,
which is an XForms to Flash compiler written in Flash.
DENG supports XForms, SVG, RSS, XHTML, and CSS. XForms
is in consideration for other standards as diverse as
Universal Remote Controls and the UK Government
Interoperability Framework, and was developed with the
participation of IBM, Oracle, Xerox, Adobe, Novell,
SAP, Cardiff, PureEdge, and a host of other companies,
universities, and invididuals.
   
   Full story @
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/08/01/1922220.shtml
and http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms

    - Gerald

PS: Here are the links to the "big three" XForms
players:

* X-Smiles by Helsinki University of Technology @
http://www.x-smiles.org

* FormsPlayer by x-port (London, UK) @
http://www.formsplayer.com

* Novell XForms @ http://developer.novell.com/xforms


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