305395 - Enable XForms extension in SeaMonkey builds

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement)

Description

[Mihail Daskalov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050815 SeaMonkey/1.0a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050815 SeaMonkey/1.0a

I believe that XForms should be enabled in the seamonkey builds. The sooner -
the better.
The idea was to have XForms enabled in Mozilla AppSuite 1.8.

This is similar to bug 294182 "enable svg and cairo in seamonkey  windows
nightly builds".

What needs to be done:
Add xforms and schema-validation to the extensions list in your .mozconfig. If
it doesn't already exist, add:
ac_add_options --enable-extensions="default,xforms,schema-validation"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mihail Daskalov]

Maybe this should be done for more platforms - OS=ALL.

Requesting blocking-seamonkey1.0a.

Is there a tracking bug for seamonkey1.0a release?

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

fwiw, that's not what should be done, instead the list in configure.in should be
changed.

there's no tracking bug, that's what the flag is for.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Feature requests don't block releases, esp. not for big features that don't have
wide-spread testing yet.
Not blocking doesn't mean it can't go in, but I seriously doubt we want this to
be included in 1.0 anyways.

Comment 4

[Mihail Daskalov]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Feature requests don't block releases, esp. not for big features that don't have
> wide-spread testing yet.

OK.
But if not enabled in nightly build how to get wide-spread testing ?

> Not blocking doesn't mean it can't go in, but I seriously doubt we want this to
> be included in 1.0 anyways.

Well, can you at least confirm the bug (someday seamonkey will have XForms -
wouldn't it[XForms != kitchen sink]).
About the inclusion in seamonkey 1.0 you can be deside later....

Why the doubts (it's just an extension for now, that need to be build - it
doesn't need to be installed though)?

Comment 5

[Mihail Daskalov]

is it a good time to enable XForms in seamonkey ?

Comment 6

[Mihail Daskalov]

is it a good time to enable XForms in Seamonkey now?

Comment 7

[OstGote!]

It's a valid request IMHO.

Comment 8

[Vyacheslav Sedov]

i guess that best behavior must be like now with flash plugin - agent must be able to recognise feature and allow user accept or deny plugin download after first visit web page with XForm on it, nothing special - use same plugin as usual but without boring user by force him to recognizing not working XForms on page, searching & selecting proper version of plugin (Win, Linux, Firefox-version dependent), reading security warning and so on, just message "Page contains new generation of web-forms" and pair of buttons "Accept" and "Later"

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

There are no plans to add this to SeaMonkey, I believe it's not even in the source we are building nowadays.