Think about how many times a day you use forms, electronic or otherwise. On the Web, forms have become commonplace for search engines, polls, surveys, electronic commerce, and even on-line applications. Nearly all user interaction on the Web is through forms of some sort. This ubiquitous technology, however, is showing its age. It predates XML by half a decade, which is a contributing factor to some of its limitations:
Poor integration with XML
Limited features make even common tasks dependent on scripting
Device dependent, running well only on
W3C accessibility group released WCAG 2.0 Working Draft, the last call for reviewers to send their comments and suggestions on different issues for the new standard. The latest recommendation WCAG 1.0 was published on May 1999, and I think the 2.0 recommendation will be ready by end 2008 since there should be first a Candidate Recommendation then Proposed Recommendation before make it final.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) covers a wide range of issues and recommendations for making Web content more accessible. This document
Just to clarify something about CSS2.1.
The name "CSS2.1" is short for "CSS Level 2, Revision 1". It's an update of the earlier W3C CSS2 Recomendation. CSS2.1 is still "CSS2", it's just the revised version.
When someone asks for a browser to support CSS2, it is implied that what they want is for the browser to support the current revision of CSS2, namely, CSS2 revision 1.
CSS2.1 is in CR, which is the call for implementations stage. It is appropriate for implementors to implement CSS2.1. It is not a draft. The only changes that will be made to
Abstract
This CSS3 Module describes how to insert and move content around a document, in order to create footnotes, endnotes, section notes. Inserted content can also introduce counters and strings, which can be used for running headers and footers, section numbering, and lists. Finally, techniques for declaring replaced images, as well as scaling and cropping them using CSS, are described.
Status of this document
This is a working draft of a CSS level 3 module. It aspires to eventually become a CSS3 Recommendation.
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