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October 12, 2005
XForms for Mozilla Preview 2
The XForms team released our second preview of the XForms Extension for Mozilla. It will only work in the latest Mozilla 1.8 products (Firefox 1.5 Beta2 and SeaMonkey 1.0 Branch).
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New samples (at the bottom)
We are actually getting bugs filed by outsiders now (and even some patches!).
Posted by doron at October 12, 2005 7:51 AM
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For what it's worth, this builds fine and the 3 examples on the project page work on an OS X/X11 branch build. The SVG calculator seems to calculate and accept keypresses fine, but does not display any numbers or characters. Switching to normal mode shows the right numbers in the display, though. May have something to do with SVG text in general...
Is there any sort of timeline on this being turned on by default? Couldn't find anything on the pages listed or on bugzilla.
Posted by: Hanspeter at October 13, 2005 10:32 AM
Mac/SVG has text problems, a known issue. The patch is awaiting 1.8 approval.
Doubtfull this will be turned on by default any time soon, since it mainly is used inside of enterprises.
Posted by: doron
at October 13, 2005 6:32 PM
By default, Mozilla's XForms implementation does not allow cross domain transactions. -
it's not very convenient from time to time
Posted by: Linda at December 15, 2005 7:43 AM
Hi Doron,
I installed it and run the examples , and it looks such as amazing technology !!!
From what I understand - you can take some XSD file and automatically generate client side only HTML/JavaScript GUI/Front-end (is this correct ?).
I understand that this technology is something like :
http://www.jaxfront.com/pages/
http://www.jaxfront.com/viewlet/firstGui_viewlet_swf.html
but without the server side files or something with nicer GUI than
http://www.datamech.com/XMLForm/formGenerator5.html
I could not understand if I can add my own mechanism such as some buttons for uploading the file built by the GUI and so on , or I have a big gap in understanding the subject ..
Thanks a lot
Itzik.
Posted by: Itzik at January 2, 2006 8:06 AM