Posts tagged "research"

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March 18, 2026

517 features, 6 standards: what we learned surveying the form specification landscape

We decomposed XForms, SHACL, FHIR, JSON Forms, SurveyJS, and ODK into 517 testable features before writing Formspec. Here's what each system gets right, where each falls short, and what the gaps tell you about the state of form infrastructure.
February 18, 2026

Why another form thing?

Forms have been solved a hundred times — unless your data actually matters. A look at the gap between form builders and form infrastructure, and how six prior-art standards shaped Formspec.

517 features, 6 standards: what we learned surveying the form specification landscape