I upgraded the Mozilla XForms plugin to the latest version (0.6) and discovered it doesn't like my tutorial example forms anymore. A list of error messages is not the worst result. The example from part 4 crashes Firefox. In Linux the process is killed instantly. In Windows you get the chance to complain about this to Microsoft. Of course you should always send an error report to Microsoft, even if you know the software is not theirs in any way. Otherwise those guys would get bored and eventually they would lose their job cutting the costs of Windows and increasing Microsoft profits. Don't think Windows would get any cheaper. It won't.
I "fixed" part 4, meaning it doesn't crash or show error messages. Most of it it was my own fault. The ugly work arounds and strange behaviors were causing the errors. The translated help messages under the F1 keys don't work anymore for now. The original XForm can still be found in the ZIP file, which does run on the 0.5 version of the plugin. Be careful with that!
Again I think it's wise to wait for a more stable XForms plugin for a while. Error messages is one thing, but completely crashing the browser and all other open tabs, is something I cannot appreciate as a result of reading broken data.
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