Monday, 11th April 2005
The W3C recently acknowledged a version of the Web Forms 2.0 draft submitted to the W3C by Mozilla and Opera.
The WHATWG has updated the Web Forms draft and released a new call for comments. Comments on this fourth stable draft of the Web Forms 2.0 specification are encouraged.
Comments should be sent to the WHATWG mailing list.
The Web Hypertext Applications Technology Working Group is a loose, unofficial, and open collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties. The group aims to develop specifications based on HTML and related technologies to ease the deployment of interoperable Web Applications.
The Web Forms 2.0 specification addresses requests made for new features to be added to the Forms features in HTML4. New features include new input control types for dates, times, e-mail addresses, and numbers; a new client-side validation model; a way to mark input controls as required; a repetition model; control over form submission so that forms can be updated instead of causing the page to be replaced; and more.
For more information, visit the Web Hypertext Applications
Technology working group Web site at http://whatwg.org/.
Ian Hickson, on behalf of the WHATWG members.