The Orbeon Forms Blog
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Monday, Apr 2, 2007
Orbeon Forms 3.5.1 and 3.0.2 Released
We just released Orbeon Forms 3.5.1. This release is an update to Orbeon Forms 3.5 (see the Orbeon Forms 3.5 announcement) which brings performance improvements, the most notable one being the ability to combine JavaScript and CSS resources, as well as a series of bug-fixes. The complete list of changes...
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Wednesday, Mar 28, 2007
XForms 1.1 Last Call Working Draft
A few weeks ago, XForms 1.1 went to Last Call Working Draft status, and we forgot to blog about it! Luckily, John Boyer and Mark Birbeck have been quicker to talk about it. The purpose of the last call is to solicit comments about the specification before going to Candidate...
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Monday, Mar 12, 2007
Combining JavaScript and CSS files for more performance
As some studies have shown (including Optimizing Page Load Time), serving CSS and JavaScript can have a high performance cost on page loads. This reality is particularly important now that JavaScript usage is increasing in web applications through the use of Ajax libraries like the Yahoo! User Interface Library, used...
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Wednesday, Feb 21, 2007
Orbeon Forms 3.5 Final Released
It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the final release of Orbeon Forms 3.5! Orbeon Forms is an open source forms solution that handles the complexity of forms typical of the enterprise or government. It is delivered to standard web browsers thanks to XForms and Ajax technology, with...
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Friday, Feb 16, 2007
Deploying Orbeon Forms to Liferay
Orbeon Forms has had Liferay portal support for quite a while, but it turns out that we hadn't quite done everything we could to make it easy to deploy Orbeon Forms to Liferay. So we have just done the following: The Orbeon Forms WAR file (ops.war) is now built in...
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Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007
Elliotte’s Predictions for XML in 2007
Elliotte Rusty Harold just wrote a piece at IBM developerWorks entitled Ten predictions for XML in 2007. In particular he predicts success for XQuery, the Atom Publishing Protocol, rejoices about seeing the XProc effort going forward, and also says that "XForms, by contrast [with Web Forms 2.0], is ready to...
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Wednesday, Feb 7, 2007
Firebug 1.0 Video
We already blogged about Firebug, a fantastic, must-have, and free Firefox extension for web developers. At Orbeon, we find Firebug invaluable to debug the Orbeon Forms platform but also XForms applications written with Orbeon Forms. Well, version 1.0 of Firebug is just out, and Yahoo! has put up a video...
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Friday, Feb 2, 2007
Orbeon Forms Instance Inspector
A lot can happen when you interact with an XForms page: events are dispatched, actions executed, submissions sent, and more. While you can have some visibility on those by enabling XForms logging in Orbeon Forms, an important part of the state of an XForms page is simply contained in the...
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Thursday, Jan 25, 2007
XQuery, XSLT 2 and XPath 2 Are W3C Recommendations
After years of work, XQuery 1.0, XSLT 2, XPath 2 and a few related specifications are now W3C Recommendations! This is excellent news as these specifications had been "almost there" for years now. From the W3C site: The World Wide Web Consortium has published eight new standards in the XML...
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Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007
New Orbeon Forms Tutorial
After lots of promises over the past few months, the new Orbeon Forms tutorial is finally available! You can read it online or get it with any recent builds of Orbeon Forms. The tutorial specifically targets the upcoming Orbeon Forms 3.5, of which you can find nightly builds here. The...
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