From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Rich wrote:
>    You are building an xforms client?
>

I have already said that at present we are using Novell's IE plugin Beta
but we're looking to require either that or Moz/firefox. I was asking if MS
we going to support it directly simply so that we could tell people that
they'd not need to install the plugin when IE7+ comes along. Obviously
however the real choice is either novell or Moz/Firefox.

I will pass on that recomendation.

>    You now claim you are building support for each of text, XML
> (whatever this means), and unspecified standards from W3C or other "open
> standards organizations".

No you tit. It has to be in plain text. Secondly XML is the stuctured plain
text markup chosen. Thirdly in terms of what sort of XML then the choice
revolves round those arrangements which are public & standardized such
as XHTML.

You know that so why make yourself appear to be so dim?

   Did you mean to contradict your earlier
> statement?  Let me quote from your post
> news://news.barkto.com/433baaff$1{at}w3.nls.net
>
>
>     We have a requirement that going forward most of our forms should be of
>     the XHTML+XFORM variety (google on UK gov e-gif & xform).
>

It doesn't contradict anything. XHTML+XFORM are text, in the XML
markup/format & are stds promulgated by an open standards group.

Anyway this is a pointless conversation as you are simply spinning &
twisting for no good reason & I have what I need which is to recomend
IE+Novell or FF/Moz & to draw the Gov's attention to the way MS slammed
PDF into Office as a desperation measure when it realised one small US
state was serious.

Adam

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