Updating Web forms

Our Web forms need to be updated. We thought about using Flash, but don’t have the correct version for producing and collecting forms. Are there any alternatives for working with forms and forms data in Flash?

Our Web forms need to be updated. We thought about using Flash, but don’t have the correct version for forms. Are there any alternatives for working with forms and forms data in Flash?

Mozquito Deng is an implementation of the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3c.org) XForms specification built as a Flash component (available at https://claus.packts.net/deng/forum/). XForms (https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/) is described as a specification for Web forms supporting a variety of platforms. Deng is an XForms-capable browser built as a Flash movie that can be used with any Flash-enabled browser. An HTML page loads the Deng Flash component, which then loads an XHTML page containing XForms. Examples of how to use Deng and XForms are available at http://www.xformsinstitute.com. Some differences between XForms and HTML forms are that your forms documents must be valid XHTML, and data is submitted to your server in XML format rather than the name/value pairs format common to HTML form submissions. More about the growing number of XForms implementations can be found at https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/#implementations.

Blass is a network architect at Change@Work in Houston. He can be reached at dr.internet@changeatwork.com.