The Orbeon Forms Blog

I am just back from the W3C Technical Plenary week in Cannes-Mandelieu (South of France). The Tech Plenary is a week-long yearly meeting where all the W3C working groups are present. Overall, this is just a great opportunity to meet people and to get some work done. On Monday and... More

It's the weekend, time for something non-techie. I am convinced that we have a general tendency to over-estimate the value of rational explanations of past data. Consequently we over-estimate the accuracy our predictions based on those explanations. In his talk at Pop!Tech 2005 entitled The Scandal of Prediction, Nassim Nicholas... More

In August 2005, Google launched an instant messenger: Google Talk. It was similar to Yahoo! Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger in that you had to download and install a little program to be able to send and receive instant messages. A few weeks ago, Google Talk was integrated with Gmail,... More

Most of the time, we use the address bar in Firefox to type the address of a web site. But we can also use it to configure Firefox or get detailed information about plugins, the cache, and other things by typing a URI that starts with "about:". When you create... More

The weekend is a time for leisure and recreation. So I'll take the opportunity and talk about something different, something non-technical. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of the bestsellers The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2002), which I can highly recommend, and Blink: The Power... More

Michael Kay (XML guru, editor the XSLT 2.0 specification, and author of Saxon an excellent XSLT and XQuery processor), published an article on using XML technologies to build workflow applications. He describes workflow applications as "applications that one can think of in terms of documents moving around a community of... More

One the big difference between open source and closed source projects is that open source projects have a natural tendency to create a community around the project. In the world of closed source software, people have well defined roles, like user, QA, developer, project manager, or program manager. In the... More

I will be in Cannes-Mandelieu (south of France) next week for face to face meetings involving the W3C working groups of which we are members, namely the XForms working group and the XML Processing working group. The XForms working group has been active for quite a long time, as it... More

Mark Birbeck has recently published a good tutorial showing how you can use XForms to query Flickr for images matching one or more tags, and then display the resulting images while controlling their size with a slider. We have now included a variation on this example in OPS. Check it... More

Relax, sit back, and enjoy in just under 10 minutes a guided tour of the most interesting OPS XForms examples including XForms Controls, To-Do List, Instant Translation, and the DMV Forms sample application. The screencast is available in small format for full-size format. More