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The owner of record for this document is Mike Shaver (shaver@mozilla.org), and all errors or omissions within it are first and foremost his responsibility.  Brendan Eich (brendan@mozilla.org) continues to drive the vision and architecture of the platform in the large, and his influence on the platform roadmap is both significant and indispensible.  In the case of a tie, disputes will be settled by single combat.
The owner of record for this document is Mike Shaver (shaver@mozilla.org), and all errors or omissions within it are first and foremost his responsibility.  Brendan Eich (brendan@mozilla.org) continues to drive the vision and architecture of the platform in the large, and his influence on the platform roadmap is both significant and indispensible.  In the case of a tie, disputes will be settled by single combat.


Major Areas Of Development =
== Major Areas Of Development ==


There are several major areas of development for Gecko 1.9, intended to serve both the applications built on top of it (chiefly Firefox 3) and applications built on the web which need or would benefit from improvements in web technology.  Many of these web-facing enhancements will be implementations of existing standards, in whole or in part.  Some will be new standards.
There are several major areas of development for Gecko 1.9, intended to serve both the applications built on top of it (chiefly Firefox 3) and applications built on the web which need or would benefit from improvements in web technology.  Many of these web-facing enhancements will be implementations of existing standards, in whole or in part.  Some will be new standards.
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Apart from all the new language features (for more details, stay tuned to the [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/ roadmap blog]), the JS2 implementation should be significantly faster and easier to debug, both from script and from a graphical debugger such as Venkman.  Debugging support in major IDEs is possible (more than possible in one IDE that's already working on it).
Apart from all the new language features (for more details, stay tuned to the [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/ roadmap blog]), the JS2 implementation should be significantly faster and easier to debug, both from script and from a graphical debugger such as Venkman.  Debugging support in major IDEs is possible (more than possible in one IDE that's already working on it).
Reminder: Please make sure to double-check new JavaScript code for potential security problems.


=== Python for XUL ===
=== Python for XUL ===
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* Extension manager
* Extension manager
* Tooling support
* Tooling support
== Previous Roadmaps ==
The Mozilla roadmap is an evolving series of documents:
* [http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-26-Oct-1998.html The 26-Oct-1998 roadmap]
* [http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-25-Sep-2000.html The 25-Sep-2000 roadmap]
* [http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-05-Jun-2002.html The 5-Jun-2002 roadmap]
* [http://www-archive.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.html The 2-Apr-2003 roadmap]
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