Gecko:1.9 Planning
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This is a brainstorm page, raw and ready.
Contents
Graphics capabilities
- cairoification
- SVG 1.1 complete and performant
- solid testing of opera-interop
- Canvas improvements
- OpenGL ES context?
- %age width/height
- finish Safari compatibility
- 3D markup for retained-mode and model manipulation?
- transforms/filters for images and canvas
- XUL2D
- affine transformations
- non-affine transformations (selected only?)
- transforms expressed in CSS
- declarative animation
- pan, zoom, scale
- translucent and non-rectangular windows
- text and others on paths
- flow and flex around complex shapes
- 3D work
- X3D?
- Level of detail
- Thumbnailing
- fast-but-general for animations
- content model LOD?
- downloadable fonts
- vertical text
- printing improvements
JS2
- packages
- namespaces
- classes/MOP
- type annotations
- operators
- E4X rationalization (E5X)
- debugging infrastructure
- mixed-lang (python, C++, etc.)
- GC improvements
- security model revamp
- E4X<->DOM glue
Python for XUL
- XBL language neutrality
- performance?
XUL' and XBL2
XUL'
- improved template builder
- data providers for sqlite, RDF, filesystem, computed-by-JS
- produce arbitrary content
- unprivileged use
- XUL box model
- hyatt's spec and CSS properties
- user-implemented layout managers (a la grid, stack, deck)
- improved widgets
- tree (esp "view" API), sort for unprivileged content
- grid
- stack and event handling
- support for large-scale data containers (not just in tree)
- overlays
- synthesized onload (at the least: declarative event handler merging)
- xpath insertion-point selection
- fallback locations
- editing improvements
- NVU changes landed
- richer editor interface
- whitespace preservation in XUL, for editor roundtripping
- error reporting
- debugging/tracing
- Cocoa widgets
- remote XUL
- sync/async for DTD loading, etc.
- security issues
- single-file apps (script, XUL, XBL, DTD, CSS)
XBL2
- XBL attachment model
- XBL capability/security model
- language agnosticism
- custom rendering of widgets (merge in XTF)
- inherits= for CSS
- sXBL specification
Web app improvements
- security UI consolidation
- offline detection/pinning/behaviour (a la Alchemy)
- client-local storage a la Hixie
Embedding
- Unification of "embedding" APIs (nsIWebBrowser) with XUL APIs, for consolidation of window-targeting and other docshell mess
- XP embedding APIs (XRE_InitEmbedding) - bootstrapping mainly needs a little glue and a lot of documentation
- Platform-specific embedding APIs
- ActiveX embedding control - code is there and basically works - needs incorporation into libxul and lots of testing
- gtkmozembed - code is there and is tested by Epiphany and others: needs incorporation into libxul with some additional glue APIs.
- The Camino NSView thing: needs help, bsmedberg isn't strong enough in Cocoa to figure out symbol export requirements and linking strategy.
Misc
- evidence-based security model
- With or without unified security stack tracing?
- roc-style global gc
- XULRunner bootstrapping
- Stop doing the process restart thing, requires XPCOM shutdown work
- Provide minimal download CAB for quick initial bootstrap, with additional download in background?
- MathML
- Extension manager enhancements
- App and Extension locale packs