Forms are a part of our lives. They are used day by day in the ordinary life, but online they have a special place. They are the primary way of collecting information, being used for search engines, polls, surveys, electronic commerce, and even on-line applications. Every type of user-interaction on-line is done through web-forms of some sort. However, this technology is already showing it's age. Being created 5 years before XML, it has limitations, that make developer's and user's lives harder. Among them are:
As forms are older than XML,
Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced. W3C has actively promoted the use of style sheets on the Web since the Consortium was founded in 1994. The Style Activity has produced several W3C Recommendations (CSS1, CSS2, XPath, XSLT). CSS especially is widely implemented in browsers.
By attaching style sheets to structured documents on the Web (e.g. HTML), authors and readers can influence the presentation of documents without sacrificing device-independence or adding new HTML
The W3C Multimodal Interaction (MMI) Working Group [1] held a face to
face meeting in Hawthorne, New York, September 22-24, 2004, hosted by
IBM. There were 33 attendees from 23 organizations. This note
summarizes the results of the meeting.
The MMI meeting was colocated with a meeting of the Voice Browser
Working Group [2]. We took advantage of this to hold a joint meeting
with the Voice Browser group about the evolving Voice Browser V3
architecture and its relationship to multimodal architectures.
The MMI meeting focused on MMI
The CC/PP Working Group has released a Working Draft of Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies and the Modularization of XHTML has advanced to Proposed Recommendation status.
Background
There are currently significant efforts invested to integrate Web technologies into various devices. Web services are becoming accessible from a wide range of devices including cellular phones, TV, digital cameras and in-car computers. Commercial products and services are deployed or planned based on specifications which take the
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