The Orbeon Forms Blog

It’s the weekend, our time for something non-technical. But even if we are not working, we can still think about work, can’t we? At least this is what Lise Belkin did in this New York Times article: Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent. Amongst others, the article mentions a few... More

I just stumbled upon a good blog post by Ed Burnette. Without entering into the details (although they are not uninteresting), the issue described comes down to Sun voting no on a Java Community Process specification because, it seems, the techical solution (here OSGi) adopted was invented outside Sun. This... More

<img width="355 height="62" align="right" alt="XML Prague Logo" style="margin: 1em;" src="http://www.orbeon.com/download/blog/xmlprague_355x62.png"/> As blogged about earlier, we will be speaking on June 16 at XML Prague about practical applications of XML pipelines. This will be the first time I attend this conference and I am looking forward to it as I will... More

This tip shows how to nicely center HTML button content vertically. You may be familiar with the HTML button tag, which allows you to create nice HTML form buttons. For example, you can create buttons containing an icon, like this: But if you don't do anything special, depending on the... More

<img width="355 height="62" align="right" alt="XML Prague Logo" style="margin: 1em;" src="http://www.orbeon.com/download/blog/xmlprague_355x62.png"/> The XML Prague sessions are now online. We will talk about practical applications of XML pipelines. Here is the abstract: Applications of XML pipelines to web applications with XPL Erik Bruchez, Orbeon The XProc XML pipeline language is well on... More

The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a new Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. Norm Walsh blogs more about it. We are getting just a tad closer from a standard XML pipeline language! More

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... More

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... More

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... More

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... More