After a (too) long time, we’ve finally got the XForms release 0.8.7 for Firefox 3.6 out the door. Get it from addons.mozilla.org while it’s fresh! It fixes many bugs, especially visible will be the better-looking select1 dropdown boxes on Linux and Mac. Please consult the release announcement for a complete list of changes. Known bugs: [...]

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As a developer you’re used to deal with strange bugs on a daily basis. The one today was one of that kind. The Python script I use for building the XPIs uploads the finished files using HTTP POST. For building the POST data it uses MultipartPostHandler which I found on the web. But for some [...]

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I was finally able to restore the nightly builds for Firefox 3.5 (the switch to Mercurial required a rewrite of the build scripts as well). It should be working now, have a look at the build page for the details. Another quick note: XForms for Firefox 3.6 is on its way.

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It took a bit longer than expected, but thanks to the great patience Doron, Aaron and bz had reviewing the last critical bug, it is finally here: The XForms AddOn for Firefox 3.5. Download it now while it’s fresh :-) The XPI contains binary components for Windows (32bit) and Linux (32 and 64bit). Remember: this [...]

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Firefox 3.5 is released and I’ve heard a couple people asking when XForms will be ready for Firefox 3.5. The answer is: soon. There is one critical bug to be resolved (bug #490983). As soon as this one is commited, I’ll start building nightly snapshots again and we’ll see if we can release an official [...]

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It has been quiet around Mozilla XForms for a while now. But now Beta3 of Firefox 3.5 is out and it’s time to update the XForms plugin to get it released in time with the official Firefox release. Mozilla switched from CVS to Mercurial (hg) with this release and removed the XForms extension from the [...]

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I just uploaded a Mozilla XForms XPI for OpenSolaris 2008.11 (x86). Give it a try! http://philipp.wagner.name/mozilla-xforms Building Mozilla on OpenSolaris is fairly straightforward, simply follow https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Solaris_Build_Prerequisites. I needed to disable the crash reporter (but that’s not needed for XForms anyways).

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Last weekend the patch for bug #437483 got committed (it looks like it went to CVS head and branch only, not to mozilla-central — no idea how that works now). This means that the install.rdf now contains a line like <em:targetPlatform>Linux_x86-gcc3</em:targetPlatform> The extension manager uses this information to determine if the addon will work on [...]

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