Comments on: Microsoft and XForms, Standards Assassin or Innovator? http://elegantcode.com/2007/09/12/microsoft-and-xforms-standards-assassin-or-innovator/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microsoft-and-xforms-standards-assassin-or-innovator Tue, 08 May 2012 09:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elegant Code » XForms - The Coolest Client Side Technology You’ve Never Heard Of http://elegantcode.com/2007/09/12/microsoft-and-xforms-standards-assassin-or-innovator/comment-page-1/#comment-16484 Elegant Code » XForms - The Coolest Client Side Technology You’ve Never Heard Of Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:21:13 +0000 http://elegantcode.com/?p=648#comment-16484 [...] reason you have never heard of this sweet technology is explored in this post, Microsoft and XForms, Standards Assassin or Innovator?. “Standards? Why Bother,” asked [...] [...] reason you have never heard of this sweet technology is explored in this post, Microsoft and XForms, Standards Assassin or Innovator?. “Standards? Why Bother,” asked [...]

]]> By: Alessandro Vernet http://elegantcode.com/2007/09/12/microsoft-and-xforms-standards-assassin-or-innovator/comment-page-1/#comment-9647 Alessandro Vernet Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:12:20 +0000 http://elegantcode.com/?p=648#comment-9647 Like you say, XForms isn't available natively on IE, and most likely won't anytime soon. There are plugins for IE and Firefox, but, well, those are plug-ins which require to be installed. An other way is to have a server-side XForms implementation. You deploy your XForms engine on the server side, it crunches your XForms files to generate pages that use Ajax and run on all major browsers. This way you get the benefits of XForms, without the drawbacks of having to install a plug-in. Orbeon Forms is one server-side, open source implementation of XForms. You can learn more about Orbeon Forms on: http://www.orbeon.com/ Alex Like you say, XForms isn’t available natively on IE, and most likely won’t anytime soon. There are plugins for IE and Firefox, but, well, those are plug-ins which require to be installed.

An other way is to have a server-side XForms implementation. You deploy your XForms engine on the server side, it crunches your XForms files to generate pages that use Ajax and run on all major browsers. This way you get the benefits of XForms, without the drawbacks of having to install a plug-in.

Orbeon Forms is one server-side, open source implementation of XForms. You can learn more about Orbeon Forms on: http://www.orbeon.com/

Alex

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