Platform/2010-Q1-Goals/Content

• Move the web forward
  • WebSockets landed -- Not sure on this one yet...
  • Enable the HTML5 parser by default
  • Evaluate what parts, if any, of HTML5 to implement next (lifted from last quarter)
  • Implement XHR2's FormData
  • Implement File.url from the File spec
• XBL2
  • Merge GetDisplayDoc() to mozilla-central
  • Handle dynamic modifications to the bound document
• Electrolysis
  • Get basic HTTP working in the browser across processes (including loadgroups and notifications)
  • Implement a way to sanely deal with event handling across processes
  • Get JavaScript Synchronous Wrappers integrated with electrolysis and JetPacks
  • Get out of process plugins in shippable state
  • Eliminate all of XPCOM in our child processes
  • Get infallible malloc finished and landed
• Make our platform more secure
  • Implement complete wrapperization
  • Make evalInSandbox() harder to use incorrectly
• Improve performance
  • Make the thisObject hook not be hot
  • Optimize DOM child storage for performance (lifted from last quarter)
  • Minimize unwrapping overhead in quickstubs (eliminate XPCOM tearoff creation, avoid QIs, etc) (lifted from last quarter, and tweaked)
  • Make our content nodes store a pointer to their frame (eliminate the primary frame map)
• Assist with Firebug development
  • Investigate (and fix as needed) the impact of Firebug on Firefox performance and memory usage
  • Implement back-end functionality for allowing Firebug to hook into document load and unload (basically bug 342715, bug 484710, bug 534149).