[Sigia-l] Mozilla, Opera in New Web App Standard Agreement

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Speaking of "lost wars" :-)

Mozilla, Opera Join Forces For New W3C Proposal

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
(define) user agents as well. The proposed specifications include new
attributes, DOM (define) 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.

"We consider Web Applications to be an important area that has not been
adequately served by existing technologies," the paper stated in its opening
paragraph. "There is a rising threat of single-vendor solutions addressing
this problem before jointly developed specifications. To compete with other
players in this field, user agents with initial implementations of
jointly-developed specifications should ideally be shipping before the end
of the year 2004."

<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3361141>

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