On 20-Feb-06, at 2:53 PM, Earl Miles wrote:
Jeremy Epstein wrote:
This new library (JotForm) looks amazing.. the demo on the website has me drooling all over my desk. BUT there's a big issue that concerns me... Licensing: what license is JotFrom released under? I couldn't find any reference to the license or terms of use anywhere on the site. All it says (in the FAQ) is that "During the beta period, it is completely free". Even that doesn't sound too promising: clearly, the author plans to charge for (at the very least) commercial use of the library. If so, JotForm will be neither a GPLed or a GPL-compatible application, and therefore we will not be able to use it in Drupal. Also, Ber, I too think you're overreacting. Nobody wants to jave a completely JS interface as the ONLY interface to anything in Drupal. If we ever did implement something like JotForm, it would only be as an alternative interface to, say, the underlying CCK API. Jaza.
You know, I quickly assumed JotForm was basically just a demo. It's clear that the author of JotForm hopes to get something out of it. The thing is, I think any number of talented developers around Drupal could put together something that, perhaps not quite as slick and polished as that, would do very well for Drupal. The core of JotForm is likely to be the HTML generation properties...and a Drupal-specific tool wouldn't even need that. It'd just need to know what gizmos and widgets Drupal has available and what attributes they support. Drupal would do the rendering, and the front end would simply do the arranging.
@Jaza: re license, JF is an example of what can be accomplished. I left a comment with the guy asking what he wants to do with it, but like Earl says, we can probably build most of this directly with the Form API. @Ber: you can build all your forms manually, and make a Drupal4Blind....for 99% of people, they will find an admin with a JS browser to build a form in 10sec. Hallo from Italy.... -- Boris Mann Vancouver 778-896-2747 San Francisco 415-367-3595 SKYPE borismann http://www.bryght.com