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= January-February 2008 Activities =

We have combined the January and February reports this month.  This report includes the results of our first F2F meeting of 2008.

Late last year, we decided to have three F2F meetings per year instead
of four, but to extend each one by a "virtual" full day of
teleconferencing, and to extend our weekly meetings by thirty minutes.

= Working with Other Groups =
== ITS and I18N ==
We are working with I18N group to help define ITS rules for XForms.
http://www.w3.org/TR/its/

== Access Control ==
We discussed the Access Control WD and provided feedback to the
[[WebApps]] WG.  We asked for a liaison to work with Forms WG on support
for Access Control in XForms.  The Access Control WD discussed XForms
briefly and noted that some implementations of XForms already provide
cross-site permission support.

== XForms CSS Styling ==
We worked on separating out display issues in XForms from specifications of CSS (including CSS3) as a mechanism for display.

== XML Core ==
We agreed that we had no objections to XML 1.0 Fifth Edition.

== Forms Task Force ==
We continued to work on the joint Forms Task Force.  We are making progress on XForms 1.2 requirements and a first public working draft, which are both deliverables for the Forms Task Force under our charter work.

== W3C Process ==
We handled last call issues for XForms 1.1 CR.

= News =
2008-01-07: Yahoo! announced
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=284835
its strategy to foster a mobile ecosystem and deliver the best mobile
internet experience to billions of consumers. The underlying
technology for delivering on this strategy is the Yahoo! Mobile
Developer Platform,http://us.beta.mobile.yahoo.com/developers which
includes XForms: "Much of Blueprint's philosophy and syntax comes from
XForms." http://us.beta.mobile.yahoo.com/developers/roadmap

= F2F February  1 and Feb 4-6 =
== Issues ==
We discussed issues such as model-driven switch, and decided to
explore select1 as a child element of switch, to enable expression of
intent and simplify styling.  We discussed XForms action scripting and
submission related issues.

== Future ==
We developed themes for XForms 1.2 and XForms 2.0 and refined them in later teleconferences (v.i).

= XForms 1.2 and XForms 2.0 =
We updated the feature descriptions for XForms 1.2 and 2.0 and further refined them:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms_Future_Features

== XForms 1.2 ==
We picked the theme "Streamlining for Web Application Authors" (modularization and refactoring).

== XForms 2.0 ==
We picked the theme "Componentization of Model, View, and Controller."
We decided that we would approach a more modular specification
document for XForms 1.2, and would adopt modularization of features as
they become ready, though would not require full modularization until
XForms 2.0.