Filling In Forms Offline
Conventional HTML or XHTML forms require a user to download a form from the network and, using a Web browser, completely fill in the form before submitting it to a server process. This approach can be useful for situations in which the user is already online (and will continue to be online until all the form information has been gathered) and typically has immediate access to all the data needed to allow the form to be submitted successfully.
However, many business scenarios don't conform to these demands of conventional Web forms to be continuously online between downloading the form and completing its submission. For example, a sales representative might visit a client site, or several such sites, during a sales trip ...
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