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Aaron Reed  
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 More options Oct 7 2008, 5:27 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.tech.xforms
From: Aaron Reed <aar...@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:25 -0500
Local: Tues, Oct 7 2008 5:27 pm
Subject: Re: XForms extension for Firefox version 0.8.6 is available
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Hey Philipp,

You'd be better off talking to Alex Surkov.  He did that work.  I don't
think that the patch was written in order to have any performance
improvements, though we knew that one of the nice results of the patch
would be improved performance in some scenarios.

--Aaron

Philipp Wagner wrote:
> Aaron Reed wrote:
>> We are happy to announce that the XForms extension for Firefox version
>> 0.8.6 for FF2 is available for download from http://addons.mozilla.org.
>>  Please note, we are still waiting for approval for 0.8.6 for FF3 from
>> addons.

> As a side note, the Firefox 3 Linux version contains binary parts for
> x86 and x86_64, so all Linux users who use their distribution's default
> Firefox installation on 64bit machines should be able to use the
> addons.mozilla.org version without problems.

> Also note that dropdown lists on Linux will have two arrows (bug
> #457075). The patch provided in the bug is only a kind of a workaround,
> the "solution" would be to convert the select1 into "native widgets"
> like this has been done for other elements (but there seems now to be
> some discussion about whether this was the right thing to do
> [performance regressions on large data sets due to slow mutation
> handlers AFAIK], so no idea how this will end up).

> Aaron, I could try to put some time into that. If you have a free
> minute, could you give a quick summary on how it was before you switched
> to the "native widget approach", what you tried to solve with that and
> am I right with the performance problems associated with that? I read
> through some of the bug reports, but the actual intention behind the
> changes didn't become completely clear to me.

> Philipp


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