Web Forms News & Articles

Open source J2EE/Java Web CMS dotCMS (news, site) got a face-lift and several new capabilities in the latest release of version 1.9.

 When it comes to being quick off the mark SDL Tridion (news, site) must be one of the quickest. Only last week it released the results of a survey that indicated that online shoppers want companies to track them. Two days later they released a new set of web forms that can do exactly that.

In fairness, the company has been developing WebForms for quite some time, so the timing of their release may just be coincidental with the What the Customer Wants survey. However, the release of the two within days of each other is quite timely.

Sitecore (news, site) has unleashed the latest version of its web content management system. Among the new features in version 6.2 are RSS feeds for workflows, MS Outlook integration for workflow notifications, Web forms and some asset upload functionality using WebDAV.

While many of these features may sound a bit yesterday in the world of web content management, Sitecore users will probably welcome them with open arms. Better late than never, as they say.

It's no surprise that HTML 5 is coming. However, it's been a bit easier to miss that a lot of work has also been going into the issue of Web forms.

So much so, that the HTML Working Group has announced that Web Forms 2.0 have been superseded by HTML 5.

Movable Type users have had access to plug-ins for building contact forms for some time now. Until recently however, MT users had to create hacks in an entry/comment based system for the handling of requests and inquiries. There was nothing addressing a workflow for easy contact management. Until now.