Tomorrow Comes Today

I am still curious about the ability of XForms for multi screen dialogs. Somehow the group element could used for splitting up a XForm into various screens. Probably the switch/case module is the right way, like Mozilla is using it in their Tax Form example.

But what about this:
“While the concept of an application-independent “screen flow managerâ€? that determines the next view is described in the Java BluePrints [16], no framework seems to exist yet that employs this pattern to implement complex dialog constructs such as the arbitrarily nestable modules and device-specific dialog flows offered by the DCF. The World Wide Web Consortium’s XForms initiative [5] is mostly concerned with the specification of widgets on pages and does not support nestable dialog modules.” (Matthias Book and Volker Gruhn, April 2004)

For sure there is no way around reading the specifications in detail and build some prototypes. I hope it will turn out that not only multi screen dialogs are possible but rather they could be used for (complex) workflows in web applications.

… and mostly all the other songs of the gorgeous record With Love And Squalor from We Are Scientists are playing for two weeks now. And I am still not able to stop it.

While reading the AJAX blog from time to time some nice applications came up to me and I am wondering how we are still using a desktop system in the offeice. Well, there are some reasons of course, but the todays weballpications are nearly as good as destop applications. The are some quite good word processors like AJAXwrite or Writely. But totally thrilling is the spreadsheet editor iRows. Image all theses high end features within a suite like Zimbras’s Collaboration Suite. Wao! That’s where it goes.