It turns out that the inimitable Olav Junker Kjæer is now implementing Web Forms 2.0 together with three other heavy-weights of IE JavaScript manipulations.
> We’ll be building things like the new date/time input controls, the datalist element, a range control (slider), well, all of it in fact.
This is a very cool and welcome development. They started nine days ago, and their Sourceforge page says little about the whole business.
Question you might ask: **OK, so what is this Web Forms 2.0?**
The answer is: better HTML. Adding a few controls to HTML, and implementing them for IE using DHTML Behaviors (a Microsoft technology) will give page authors goodies like a date widget, a range slider, and smart validations.
The team is awesome, and their collective previous track record alone is a major force to be reckoned with. Now, united in a team with a single goal, they can move DOMs big as mountains. I am happy to live in this age.