W3C Forms WG Virtual Face to Face Meeting
Agenda for June 4, 2009
- Discuss Future Work of the Working Group
- Discuss Renewing and/or Consolidation of Charter
- Review Future Technical Features
- Technical Discussion of Future Features
Future Features List
- Context everywhere, context on bind
- Data driven switch
- case() function
- Better expression of default trigger
- Better DOM interface to expose all actions and to query states of UI controls
- AJAX programmer APIs (same as above?)
- Custom XPath functions, e.g sumover(), also from host language e.g. javascript
- submissions that put and get binary resources
- setting submission method default to "get"
- Ability to suppress RRRR on submission completion and/or initialization
- Lazy authoring improvement: empty instance exists even if no refs
repeat and relevance/enabled/disabled (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2009Mar/0007.html)
- JSON submissions
- submission to a "new" window
- mediatype="text/html" on textarea for rich text content
- XML Events 2
- Dialogs
- Model improvements (optional, nested, external/src, exceptions)
- UI event notification improvements
- Node "create" action (origin variation on insert?)
- Revisit multiple instance delete issue
- Setting event contextinfo as part of dispatch
- Better upload control (better control of metadata, instant upload submission to server)
- Better support for submission and model patterns for multipage web apps
- Simplified repeat patterns
- Refactor dependencies to detect automatic rebuild conditions and reduce circular dependencies
- Consolidate recalculate and revalidate
- Structural calculates (like declarative insert/delete)
- Same model item property on the same node (e.g. multiple constraints)
- XForms for HTML
See also the XForms 2.0 Features on the future features page, some of which are duplicated here.