Firefox 93 now supports PDF XFA forms
via <https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/107067764603687669> mastodon: Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog — https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-and-accessibilit... <https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-and-accessibility-in-the-firefox-pdf-viewer/> This appears to mean that Firefox on Linux can open and fill those pesky Canadian Government forms that were created with Adobe Livecycle. These used to appear as "/*Please wait... If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document*/." but now open as proper forms. This must have been non-trivial to implement, because even Adobe couldn't create XFA forms outside the Windows-only Livecycle. cheers, Stewart
On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:35 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
via <https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/107067764603687669> mastodon: Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog — https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-and-accessibilit...
This appears to mean that Firefox on Linux can open and fill those pesky Canadian Government forms that were created with Adobe Livecycle. These used to appear as "*Please wait... If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document*." but now open as proper forms.
This must have been non-trivial to implement, because even Adobe couldn't create XFA forms outside the Windows-only Livecycle.
Now - - - - how long until this hits firefox-esr? - - - - musing.
If I have questions regarding some problems with firefox - - - - would you, or anyone else out there in gtalug land, know of a way to achieve a 'conversation' rather than a bug report. Or is a bug report the only way of having such 'conversation'. TIA
On 2021-10-09 7:24 a.m., o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
If I have questions regarding some problems with firefox - - - - would you, or anyone else out there in gtalug land, know of a way to achieve a 'conversation' rather than a bug report. Or is a bug report the only way of having such 'conversation'.Â
Have a look at the "Contact Us" page at mozilla.org which lists Facebook, Twitter, and Forums & email. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contact/ -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
On 2021-10-09 7:24 a.m., o1bigtenor wrote:
Now - - - - how long until this hits firefox-esr? - - - - musing.
Depends what ESR cycle you're on. Debian considers 78.14 their ESR release (at least in Buster, which I haven't upgraded from yet), while Mozilla offers 91.2 as ESR. So if we review release dates: 78.14 2020-07-ish 91.2 2021-08-10 93.0 2021-10-05 So maybe in 15 months, at the outside? Stewart
On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 2:43 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2021-10-09 7:24 a.m., o1bigtenor wrote:
Now - - - - how long until this hits firefox-esr? - - - - musing.
Depends what ESR cycle you're on. Debian considers 78.14 their ESR release (at least in Buster, which I haven't upgraded from yet), while Mozilla offers 91.2 as ESR. So if we review release dates:
78.14 2020-07-ish 91.2 2021-08-10 93.0 2021-10-05
So maybe in 15 months, at the outside?
Thank mr Stewart
I was just musing and hadn't taken any time to check things. Had some issues with FF on a clean shutdown and reboot so thought it might be useful to at least check things. Debian world numbers (search on debian + packages + firefox-esr) 78.15 2021.10.06 (for stable and old stable - - - - testing not so much!!) 91.2 2021.10.06 (for unstable and a slightly older version 91.1 for experiemental) no listing on 93.0 - - - yet (grin!) confusing (IMO) but there it is. Maybe it won't take 15 months - - - let's hope! Regards
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