Conclusion

• Forms need to present, selectively gather, and validate information.
• Presentation, within the WWW environment, is best specified via HTML (with extensions) and controlled via the browser, but gathering and validating inputs is best done by an applet or script with full GUI capabilities.
• However, this currently leads to complicated interactions between HTML, the browser, and the applet or script.
• It would be desirable to have a single specification of all aspects of a form, whether presentational or computational.