Well, not new, but maturing - PDF forms with Adobe Javascript as the scripting language - sort of "web without web" and all the display/printing is handled at the level of Postscript. I'm doing an entire company this way and the users are raving about it for ease of use. The stuff that shows up onscreen is exactly what they are used to filling out by hand. It takes only a few hours to add a new form and make it interact with existing ones. Each form has an associated workgroup DB that gets replicated periodically or on demand. So, the forms have a life of their own, just like in real life. And you can build from the outside in, which is very natural.

(PS - Adobe Javascript is not your father's HTML forms world.)