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Posted by jazzslider on 10/12/06 20:09
Thanks for the tip...I'm familiar with FormFaces, and so far it works
the best out of everything I've been able to try.
Unfortunately, the more complex the XForm, the slower it gets. The
stuff I'm trying to convert is pretty complex; one of my forms took
FormFaces long enough to load that the browser started to complain ("a
script on this page is causing your computer to run slowly"-type
messages).
That's why I like the idea behind AjaxForms (www.ajaxforms.com); it
uses Java (on the development machine, not on the server) to
pre-"compile" a lot of the things that FormFaces has to do at runtime.
If it did a better job of implementing the XForms standards, it's what
I'd be using.
Anyway, thanks for your help; I will keep looking around in the
meantime.
- Adam
Jeremy wrote:
> jazzslider@gmail.com wrote:
> > I have a headache.
> >
> > I've done a LOT of research lately into XForms, and I am thoroughly
> > convinced that a good implementation of this technology would help me
> > immensely in converting my department's paper forms into interactive
> > online systems.
> >
> > There are a couple of problems I'm facing that I'm hoping someone here
> > could help with. Number one: browser support for XForms is pitiful,
> > and I can't expect my target audience to download plugins/extensions
> > and the like. Number two: JavaScript is my Achilles heel, and I don't
> > have the first clue about Java, yet every workable XForms
> > implementation I've ever found uses some combination or other of those
> > technologies. The Java problem is compounded by the fact that I'm not
> > in control of my own server; I don't believe I have permission to
> > install Java code (the server people haven't answered that question
> > yet), even if I DID know how to use it.
> >
>
> A while ago I found this: http://www.formfaces.com/ which is just a
> drop-in javascript that enables XForms in pretty much any browser.
>
> Server-side, I've no idea what goes down. I know nothing about XForms,
> but I'm guessing it provides XML encoded data rather than URL encoded -
> you could process this with PHP's DOM or SimpleXML.
>
> Jeremy
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