Re: [XCON] Discussion Point 3: Querying Templates

[Adam Roach <adam at nostrum.com>]

[as chair]

Brian Rosen wrote:

> > If we use the XML schema to describe the template, should we
> > include user interface "hints" that allow clients to intelligently
> > decide whether to display values as (e.g.) a slider versus a knob versus
> > a number that can be typed in?
> >    
> Yes, sort of.  This is part of the template work, please read that draft.
>  

To be clear: my questions are intended to be Socratic. They're not for 
my own education; they're to spur discussion.

At the interim, there was significant discussion around these points, 
and some of them wandered into comparisons to HTML (in which one can 
differentiate between, say, radio buttons and multi-select lists, even 
though they have the same semantic meaning) and to XFORMS. The approach 
described in the current template draft isn't a foregone conclusion, and 
I wanted to encourage an examination of the various options we have in 
this space.

I have personal opinions about how this should be done, but I'm trying 
to leave my opinions out of the posts I mark "[as chair]". To be 
impartial, I'm including options that I personally think are Really Bad 
Ideas [tm]. After others comment on the points, I intend to come back 
and provide my own personal opinions where I think they matter.

/a

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