XForms: March 2006 Archives
Not a full-flexed status update, but I just wanted to say that we’ll be releasing v0.5 about the same time as Firefox 1.5.0.2 hits the streets. So quite soon: Lot’s of fixes and approvements! Here is a list of bugs fixed since last release, and there are more to come yet.
I’ve also updated our pages on DevMo, and added a few more, including a troubleshooting page.
Have a nice weekend!
I’ve just read a really nice article on O’Reilly Net about XForms. Highly recommendable.
I’ve also just read that XForms is used in a European eGovernment project called eMayor.
I’ve also heard about a few projects here in Spain. It’s starting to spread, so maybe we should get that XForms extension done :)
XForms 1.0 Second Edition is now a W3C recommendation. Lots of “bug fixes” and improvements!
Some goodies are also available with it. Among others, the test suite has had a major makeover.
Why not cure a hangover with some JS code :)
I’ve created a patch for the DOM Inspector so it can show the states of XForms Controls. Should work on both trunk and branch
Update: I’ve added the functionality to show the XForms instance document, when you click on an xforms instance element.
Unfortunately you need to apply the patch and build your own DOM Inspector. Problem is that, as far as I can see, it is not possible to register external viewers. It would be a really nice feature for the DOM Inspector IMHO. I’ve filed bug 330251 for that.
With external viewers I could bundle it with the XForms Buddy or we could bundle it directly with the XForms Extension
I think that I have not broadcasted the fact, that I am back in the XForms Working Group. Well I am :) Representing Fundación CTIC (naturally).
So now I can, again, be bugged by spec. issues :)
It really sets off a white belt
We’ve just released version 0.4 of our extension. Still a preview, but lots of improvements since 0.3. Some of them:
- Upload is supported (except mediatype filtering)
- Preliminary support for range for numbers
- Inputs bound to date types are shown as calendar/date-pickers
- Support of copy element
- Hide disabled form controls per default (*:disabled { display: none; } )
- Support DOMFocusIn / DOMFocusOut events
- Support xforms-select and xforms-deselect
- Support submissions using “mailto:”
- Fix various errors in XPath parsing
- Fix various XUL issues (work in progress)
- Support more schema types
Download - Announcement message - Release Notes
Note: addons.mozilla.org is still broken, and cannot really be trusted :( So unfortunately, automatic updating is not possible, you have to download the new version manually.
