November 19, 2003
Flex vs. XForms
Xforms is a new W3C Recommendation standard for building forms and form logic using XML. This allows you to build a data model and processing logic for a form, independent of the user interface.
This sounds very similar to the new Flex architecture Macromedia is beta testing right now.
It's too bad that the Flex XML schema is proprietary, rather than W3C standards-based. If Xforms becomes a full standard, Macromedia should consider adding support for it later on.
It might make people more interested in Flex as a forms authoring/rendering tool, and adding support for accepted standards is never a wasted effort.
If someone wanted to build XForms-based pages, using an XForms-compatible Flex would be a sure winner over another solution, since Flex leverages the widely distributed Flash player, instead of the less popular SVG viewers.
Posted by andy at November 19, 2003 10:37 AM