Mozilla/Firefox XForms Plugin Status Update

Hello,

    In case anyone is interested in tracking the status of the upcoming=20=

XForms plugin/addon for Mozilla browsers such as Firefox allow me to=20
highlight the blog by developer Allan Beaufour who posts a status=20
update almost weekly.

    The last status update dated March 21st reads as follows:

  Checked in

We=92re doing some =93behind the scenes=94-work for the moment, so the =
only=20
thing new thing is support for inline schemas (bug 285207).

Coming up

It=92s the same patches from the last couple of weeks that are lurking.=20=

We=92re working on the extensions, select, and types for attributes.

New UI architecture?

Probably of more interest is a new architecture for the user interface.=20=

We=92re investigating whether it=92s feasible for us to detach the UI =
from=20
the code and bind it together using XBL, so we can create the visual=20
representation in f.x. XUL/JavaScript. It would also allow the form=20
author to create custom widgets for existing or new datatypes. Let=92s=20=

see where it leads us =85 more about that later on.

Easter is coming up, so do not expect too much progress the next week=20
:) Have a nice Easter.

   Find out more @ http://www.beaufour.dk/blog

    - Gerald
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