A key idea of our approach to building internet applications is making good use of standards-based languages, in particular XForms.
XForms is an exciting new language from the W3C that can be used to create anything from simple forms to complex Web 2.0 applications. XForms are dynamic, cross-platform, accessible, script-free...and 100% standard.
This handbook covers everything you need to know to get started with XForms. You'll start with a simple walkthrough to get your development environment up and running, then create two fully functioning applications--one that saves links to del.icio.us, and another that searches Flickr. Both use CSS-driven Ajax animations. Once you've seen what XForms can do, building web applications will never be the same!
This handbook covers everything you need to know to get started with XForms. You'll start with a simple walkthrough to get your development environment up and running, then create two fully functioning applications--one that saves links to del.icio.us, and another that searches Flickr. Both use CSS-driven Ajax animations. Once you've seen what XForms can do, building web applications will never be the same!
What is XForms?
XForms is a relatively recent standard from the W3C, designed to allow us to create sophisticated user interfaces using mark-up. This means that defining a user interface is much the same as using HTML, except that XForms has been designed from the ground up to cope with many of the things that we usually have to dive into script to do.
And XForms doesn't just make it easy to replace script in our applications, it also provides us with the means to manipulate and validate XML; unlike most languages that you might have used, XForms brings XML right into the heart of the language.
And XForms doesn't just make it easy to replace script in our applications, it also provides us with the means to manipulate and validate XML; unlike most languages that you might have used, XForms brings XML right into the heart of the language.
