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• Subject: Re: XFORMS
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:23:16 -0500
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Fraser Goffin wrote:
> As Mike says there are a number of successful 'server-side' 
> implementations in use (we use one in an industry portal), but IMO it is 
> unlikely to gain much traction client-side (can't see MS supporting it 
> since they have their own solution to this and IE usage remains 90%+ 
> commercially).
> 

As I've said before, that's irrelevant. If there's a good, free client 
side implementation that is better than the alternatives for developing 
web apps, some intranets will use it. It can grow from there to take 
over the market. This has happened before. This is *exactly* how IE and 
AJAX got into the position they're in today.

Of course, this only works if there actually is a good client side 
implementation bundled with a browser that lets developers do things 
they can't easily do today with alternative technologies.

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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