Further to , Jason Cater (jcater) clarified that he had suggested that "self" could refer to neither the trigger's owner nor to the trigger's caller - but to the event itself. So self.action could be what action is being performed, self.parent could be the trigger's owner, and self.context could be the caller. In other words, I was presenting a 3rd alternative where self referred to something specific to the trigger.

James Thompson (jamest) reported problems navigating through a form with a grid of multiple rows of data - when shift-tabing backwards it jumps up and down between 3 rows inconsistently - problems seemed to occour right before a typecast="date" field. Reinhard Müller (reinhard) said it sounded like a bug in display handler.