XForms and Internet Applications: XForms: An Executable Pattern Language

Last Fall, Mark Birbeck (XForms guru) made an excellent post to his blog that shows one of the huge advantages of XForms over, say, using Javascript to do Ajax programming.

The XForms is short as heck. It requires less baggage too. Whereas the Ajax solution requires the application to use a huge amount of Javascript code; either built-in, or from third-party source(s).

Mark Birbeck:

As I said, it looks like what I'm saying is that XForms is better than script. I have to say that if that were all we'd achieved with XForms then I'd be pleased, but a lot less vocal. XForms has actually provided us with something far more significant--we now have something close to a pattern language, but one that thinks it's a programming language.

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