XForms for Mobile Devices

Benefits

XForms provides specific benefits when used on mobile devices:

• User interfaces using XForms require fewer round trips with the server and are in that sense more self contained than user interfaces using HTML 4 forms.
• Capabilities of mobile devices vary greatly; consequently the amount of the work involved in generating different user interfaces for different devices is of particular concern in the mobile world. XForms has been designed from the ground up to allow forms to be described independently of the device, which reduces the amount of work required to target multiple devices.
• XForms reduces the need for JavaScript, which is particularly interesting as JavaScript support varies greatly on mobile devices and cannot be widely relied upon. This also allows systems on which JavaScript is disabled for security concerns to continue to operate flawlessly.