XForms: April 2005 Archives

Checked In

• Small fix for schema handling, we were assuming the presence of a schema (bug 289595)

In Progress

• Olli and Andrew is making good progress on the new widget-design. A new XTF+XBL design has been proposed (bug 291026), and the widgets have been updated to use it (bug 289434). We’re getting close.

• Fixes for index() handling: Updating controls using index() when index changes (bug 289534) and actually getting controls using index() work (other than <output> with a value attribute) (bug 291797).

• The new attribute handling is awaiting review (bug 235512)

• Pseudo-class handling has gotten yet another design approach, and is waiting for feedback (bug 271720)

Mostly small fixes this week.

Checked In

• Refined error reporting so we can report multiple types of errors (bug 289518), and added some more detail to the error messages (bug 290308).

• Fixed repeat which broke due to checkins last week (bug 290253).

In Progress

Same stuff as last week, except for the above checkin.

Useless Information :)

We have a short work-week in Denmark this week, as Friday is a public holiday: “Store Bededag”. Literally this means “Big Praying Day”. In the 17th century the king decided that we had too many public (church) holidays, so a lot of public holidays was collected to one “big praying day”. Very pragmatic :)

Checked In

• We now write error messages to the JS console when we throw an XForms exception event (bug 289297)

• Got rid of the ugly refresh-everything-always hack, so now we only refresh controls that need to be refreshed. This should seriously speed things up, but is also a potential form-breaker (bug 278368)

• Optimized when we process the node bindings for our controls. Again, should also speed things up (bug 284469)

In Progress

• Modify our error reporting so we can report fatal errors, etc and not only “messages” (bug 289518)

• <select> bugs (bug 281668, bug 279063, bug 278277)

• We’ve gotten a bit further in modifying the attribute handling (bug 235512), to make it possible to store properties on attributes (bug 285597), which will make it possible for us to attach types on attributes (bug 283004).

• We’re exploring the possibility of using XBL as a way to create widgets for XForms (bug 289434). There’s still plenty of issues and unanswered questions, but the potential in it is huge.

• We’re trying to get support for the pseudo classes like :read-only, :enabled, etc. (bug 271720)

Hmmm, forgot to “release” a new version of my XForms Buddy. I’ve mostly forgotten what I’ve changed :), but here’s some of it:

• Much better styling
• Added expression watcher
• Added event watcher (will go away again, as we start using the JS console)
• Toyed around with the updateURL, but didn’t quite make it work

Get the newest version

Status

Easter has passed, and we back in business. To get an overview I’ve updated the XForms project page, so it includes an up to date status on the current code. It’s more green than I thought, so I’ve probably forgotten something :)

Checked in

• outputing errors on the JavaScript console (bug 287714). We still need to fit the rest of the current errors to this too…

• hints now look more like hints (bug 287272)

In Progress

• <select> bugs (bug 281668, bug 279063, bug 278277)

• Get types to work for attributes and stop modifying instance data with type information (bug 283004, bug 285597, bug 235512)

• New UI architecture (bug on the way). I think the XTF+XBL idea is good, but we’ve run into some “issues” with it. Let’s see.

Misc

On a sidenote, there’s an interesting conference in May: X-Tech: XML, the Web and Beyond. There are a number of both XForms and Mozilla talks. I’ll be there, and so will bryner and possibly others from the XForms team.

And if you’re wondering where the status update for last Monday went, it was eaten by the Easter-monster :)