- From: Dean Edwards <dean@edwards.name>
- Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:34:28 +0100
For the last few weeks four programmers (myself, Erik Arvidsson, Dimitri Glazkov and Olav Junker Kj?r) have been building an IE implementation of Web Forms 2.0 for Internet Explorer. We now have a working version available for testing. Because we are programmers we are rubbish at testing ourselves so we need the help of this list to ensure quality before releasing to the general public. This is an important development for the future of WF2/HTML5. Without a good implementation for Internet Explorer the developer uptake will be minimal. So by testing this development and ensuring its quality you will be helping to secure the future of HTML5. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DEVELOPMENT IS STILL NOT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION SO I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU DID NOT BLOG ABOUT IT!! Features -------- The implementation is by no means complete but the bulk of WF2 functionality has been written. The following features are *not* present in the first release: - support for IE5.x - Repetition model - Complex submission formats (no fancy XML stuff) - datetime/datetime-local controls - data loading - output control - labels collection - fieldset extensions - internationalisation The remaining WF2 extensions have been implemented and should work as expected. Some other things to note: - The code is not yet optimised for speed/size - The source code on SourceForge is not up to date so don't reference it Testing ------- The following things particularly need to be tested: - event firing (oninput etc) - validity state - form submission (basic submission only) Posting bug reports ------------------- We are hosting this development on SourceForge so please use the bug tracking system there: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=138872&atid=741957 I'd really appreciate some volunteers as dedicated testers. Obviously, any testing is a good thing but it would be nice if there were someone who would volunteer to coordinate testing. Please don't volunteer for this task unless you can guarantee that you will be able to dedicate a reasonable amount of time to it. You will need to know the spec fairly well too! Getting The Code ---------------- You can download version 0.1 of WF2 for IE here: http://webforms2.org/download/wf2_0_1.zip We have a pure OO solution. If you are interested in looking at the source code in more detail you can browse it using a SmallTalk-like interface here: http://webforms2.org/dev/ide/ Thank you in advance for your testing efforts! :-) -dean
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