FOSDEM 2003 is over, and it was really interesting. I met a lot of people, who develop Mozilla and who develop the parts of Mozilla, which are the most interesting for us (DOM, XSLT and Editor/Composer).

There were some really interesting talks and I can't say, which was the best one ;)

I spoke to Peter van der Beken, who's one of the maintainers of the DOM implementation in Mozilla. And he thinks XML Schema could/should be supported in the future by Mozilla natively and he found a W3C Working Draft for DOM-Validation, which looks quite interesting. But there is no timeframe until when that is implemented.

Furthermore Jonas Sicking is currently working on a faster XSLT implementation in Mozilla. It should be in Mozilla 1.4, if everything goes ok.

Unfortunately Daniel Glazman, one of the editor component developers, could not attend my presentation about the Bitflux Editor, but he promised to look at my slides and we'll see, what he thinks about it ;)

Speaking of the slides, they are available at http://slides.bitflux.ch/fosdem2003 (you'll need Mozilla to watch them)

I also put some pictures online.

It was well worth going to Brussels and it gave me some good insight into the Mozilla developement and what the plans are for the future. And I'd like to thank Brian and Kai for organisizing this event.

Jean-Marc Desperrier @ 14.02.2003 17:48 CEST
Hi, Christian

At FOSDEM you were thinking it might be problematic to run your editor with Phoenix, but I asked some people to test and everything seems to work right. Carret browsing IS available with Ctrl-F7.
They found a bug with the context menu after you do an undo, but I see the same problem with Moz.
I'm very interested in using your editor to edit some XML file of a dictionnary project, I'll keep your informed about my progress