[GTALUG] Firefox 93 now supports PDF XFA forms

[o1bigtenor]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 8:35 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk at 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-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.
>
>
> 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
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