On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:56:32 -0500, Phillip Jones wrote: > Yes I am glad to see consideration of putting a legitimate Forms Manager > Back. I would prefer one that worked similar to the one in SM1.1.8; But > one based on the form History Manager Plugin would do.
OK there are actually two parts to the problem. 1. The form autofill functionality that fills forms up on a page. 2. The Form History Editor used to edit/delete/correct mistakes. The second is possibly solvable (with some restrictions) since it's just front end UI code. We could even crib off the Form History extension there. The first is more problematic since the code lives somewhere in toolkit and is written mostly in C++. The main caveat is that the toolkit form history implementation has no concept of a "form" (!!). In the old XPFE form filler for each unique webpage the component stored the URL and the fieldname/value pairs together. In the toolkit implementation only fieldname/value pairs are stored and these could be used for any webpage that contains those fields. I think an interim workaround is to port the Firefox Form Autofill extension which (I think) uses it's own storage format and allows autofilling whole forms as well as it's own editor to access stored forms data. Longer term is perhaps to adapt the code from that extension into the suite proper. However I don't know how the more senior SeaMonkey developers feel about this. Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
