One of the major initial goals of the HTML 5 effort was to update the core HTML form elements to reflect more contemporary thinking. Find out how well the HTML 5 specification has fulfilled that goal so far.
by Kurt Cagle
September 17, 2009
orms have become an integral part of nearly all web applications, but the core HTML form elements are now nearly 13 years old. No surprise, then, that one of the major initial goals of the HTML 5 effort was to update these elements to reflect more contemporary thinking.
One of the W3C's underlying goals when it first laid out the XHTML specification was to create a forms architecture that would better handle XML content. That led to the development of XForms in 2002. However, many in the HTML community felt that the focus on XML rather than on name/value pairs and JavaScript, which had evolved as part of HTML 4, ultimately made the specification too complex or too inflexible for the average web developer.
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orms have become an integral part of nearly all web applications, but the core HTML form elements are now nearly 13 years old. No surprise, then, that one of the major initial goals of the HTML 5 effort was to update these elements to reflect more contemporary thinking.
