Platform/2009-Q4-Goals

General Goals

• Improve product responsiveness.
• Drive towards process separation with a focus on Fennec.
• Improve web capabilities.
• ARM Support
  • Testing infra
  • Crash reporting
• Release Firefox 3.6

Layout

• Simplify frame destruction (code improvement) [fantasai]
• Publish CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders and Selectors as CR (spec work) [fantasai]
• Publish some official CSS reftests (spec work) [fantasai, dbaron]
• CSS scanner performance analysis and improvements (performance) [zwol]
• Enable SVG Animation with shippable feature set (near-complete CSS property coverage, near-complete SVG attribute coverage, but not necessarily syncbase timing) (Web platform, Acid3) [dholbert, birtles, jwatt]
• Land Harfbuzz prototype integration in tree (Web platform, performance) [jfkthame]
• Lazy frame construction? (performance) [bzbarsky] (not sure if this should be here; we want it, but we're still working out a plan)
• Compositor phase 2 --- paint and animation control (Web platform, performance) [roc]

Video/Audio

• 'buffered' and 'seekable' TimeRanges [cpearce]
• Remove dependency on libfishsound, liboggz, and liboggplay [doublec]
• Experimental implementation of accelerated full-screen video using cairo-gl [kinetik]

Mac OS X

• Resolve Mac OS X Java situation for Firefox 3.6.
• Fix any major regressions in 64-bit Mac OS X builds.
• Complete initial performance analysis of 64-bit Mac OS X builds. Should include comparison with 32-bit builds on 10.6 for major benchmarks.
• Fix all known regresssions in Cocoa NPAPI, make it ready to ship.

Accessibility

• Event handling performance implementation (for DHTML)
  • Code reorganization
  • Implementation of throttling and/or delayed computation and/or smarter caching
  • Crashers
• Fix keyboard support for HTML5 contentEditable
  • Add accessibility support for HTML controls inside of a contentEditable
• Polish table/grid/treegrid accessibility
  • issues with some existing complex DHTML tables (e.g. dojo)
  • vendor reported issues

Multi-Process

• Shippable multi-process Flash, windowed and windowless on Windows (and Linux)
• Complete necko API revisions necessary to support multi-process networking
• Usable prototype of Fennec running multi-process on Linux
• Usable prototype of multi-process Flash on Mac OSX 10.6 (has external dependencies)
• Completed gecko API changes necessary for multi-process session history and link targeting