XForms/Installing and Testing
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[edit] XForms Client Options
There are several ways to get started using XForms.
One of the most common today is Installing XForms in Firefox. This takes only about a minute to install so it is used by many of our students. Most of these exercises have been tested with the Firefox 0.7 extension on both Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0.
There are JavaScript-based solutions and other plugins as well as web-server solutions available. See the Player Specific Instructions or the wikipedia page on XForms for more details. Note that these XForm solutions usually require you to download a web server and install Java Web Archive Files (War files) in the correct directory or add player-specific code to your examples.
[edit] FireFox Plugin on the Mac
The Firefox 3.0 plugin has not been compiled for the Mac.
You can get the 2.0 Mac installer here:
[edit] XSLT Forms
XSLTForms is a new client that uses XSLT in the browser to transform an XForms into HTML and JavaScript for browsers like IE that do not support XForms nativly.
