internetnews.com: Mozilla, Opera Join Forces For New W3C Proposal
Jun 01, 2004, 16:45 (4 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)
"Two of Microsoft's rivals in the browser space have joined
forces on a standards proposal slated to be presented to a W3C
workshop.
"The Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software collaborated on the
document, which represents their 'consensus' opinion in the context
of standards for Web Applications, and Compound Documents.
"The working document of the draft specification is titled Web
Forms 2.0 which is in its essence an extension of the way forms are
defined in the existing HTML 4.01 forms chapter, though it will
apply equally to XHTML user agents as well. The proposed
specifications include new attributes, DOM interfaces and events
for validation and dependency tracking as well as XML form
submission and initialization. The specification also aims to
document existing practices in the forms area that have not yet
been officially standardized..."
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