Firefox3/Documentation Plan

This page provides information on the plans for documenting Firefox 3, including listing topics that need to be covered, specific articles that need to be written, and the names of people that have expressed an interest in covering them.

In addition, rough (very rough) estimates of how long various tasks should take are included.

See Firefox 3 for developers and Gecko 1.9 Changes affecting websites for additional details, including links to bugs and specifications.

If you're working on one of these documents, please indicate in the "Est. Person-Hours" column the amount of time you expect the work to take to complete.

Category	Topic	Lead Writer	Status	Notes	Est. Person-Hours
Web Apps 1.0	<a ping>
Web Apps 1.0	WHATWG online/offline devents	jresig	done
Web Apps 1.0	API for alternate style sheets
Web Apps 1.0	getElementsByClassName()	jresig	done
Web Apps 1.0	Canvas transform() and setTransform()	mfinkle
CSS	display property's inline-block and inline-table values are now implemented	sheppy	done		0
CSS	font-size-adjust works on all platforms	sheppy	done		0
CSS	rgba() and hsla() color value support	sheppy		Need to look this stuff over and figure out exactly where these are used and how. See bug 147017.	?
CSS	:default pseudo-class support	sheppy		Need to read bug bug 302186.	?
CSS	-moz-intrinsic, -moz-min-intrinsic, -moz-shrink-wrap, and -moz-fill values have been added to width, min-width, and max-width (bug 311415).	sheppy		bug 311415	2
DOM	clientTop and clientLeft extensions support		done		0
JavaScript	JavaScript 1.8	jresig	Just a list of what's coming so far.	bug 380236	?
XSLT/XPath	node-set support			bug 193678, specification
XSLT/XPath	Regular expressions support			bug 354886, specification
SVG	foreignObject	mfinkle		bug 326966, specification, see also
SVG	pattern element			specification
SVG	mask element			specification
SVG	SVG filters: filter, feBlend, feComponentTransfer, feFuncR, feFuncG, feFuncB, feFuncA, feComposite, feFlood, feGaussianBlur, feMerge, feMergeNode, feMorphology, feOffset, feTurbulence			specification
SVG	<a> element became nsSVGAElement instead of XML binding
SVG	Various DOM functions for text have been implemented
XUL	<scale>	mfinkle	done
XUL	number boxes	mfinkle	done
XUL	<dropmarker> element	mfinkle		bug 348614
XUL	<spinbuttons> element	mfinkle		bug 155053
XUL	<datepicker> element	mfinkle	?	specification
XUL	<timepicker> element	mfinkle	?	specification
XUL	Tree improvements			bug 212789, bug 296040, bug 201499, XUL:Tree
XUL	Menu improvements	?	?	bug 333023, bug 372552, bug 312867, bug 312867, bug 70798
XUL	Textbox improvements	?	?	bug 346787, bug 312867, bug 312867, bug 253481
XUL	Buttons may be made repeatable	?	?	bug 331055
XUL	buttondisabledaccept may now be used on <dialog> elements to have the OK button initially disabled	?		bug 247849
XUL	Title bars now have an allowevents attribute	?		bug 361425
XUL	Splitters now have a "both" option for collapse	?		bug 337955
XUL	Rich list boxes now support multiple selection	?		Set seltype to multiple to allow it
Templates	Templates have been improved in several ways	mfinkle	?	bug 285631, more info
Idle service	The new nsIIdleService	sheppy	done
Assorted	Assorted bugs have been fixed; see Firefox 3 for developers for details	?
Places	Needs documenting in full	?	?	Places