SeaMonkey/Features/2.1

• What big things do current 2.1 builds offer (over SeaMonkey 2.0)? FF 3.6 and DevPreview relnotes provide some info.
  • WOFF format for website fonts.
  • Resizeable text areas in web forms (bug 442228).
  • Fullscreen video.
  • JIT tracing for x86_64.
  • async places expiration.
  • Expiration and frecency-ordered form field autocomplete.
  • Improved js-ctypes support.
  • Better performance on startup and shutdown.
  • SVG attributes which are mapped to CSS properties can now be animated using SMIL (bug 534028). Support for SMIL Animation in SVG.
  • Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X has been implemented. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently.
  • Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
  • Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages.
  • Protection from out-of-date plugins
  • CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block ways that websites can quickly check a user's browsing history.
  • The SSL security system has been changed to fix a renegotiation flaw.
  • Support for CSS Transitions.
  • Support for WebGL, for Direct2D acceleration on Windows, and a new HTML5 parser (all disabled by default).
  • MailNews improvements?
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• What is "ready", but not in yet? Why?
  • OOPP: Code is all there, but needs libxul, which in turn needs external linkage of mailnews.
    • bug 545716 Use out-of-process-plugins (OOPP) framework in SeaMonkey.
    • bug 394502 [Meta] allow SeaMonkey to build with libxul. This is unlikely to make 2.1a1 but KaiRo hopes that it will make it for Beta1.
  • Places Bookmarks: Waiting for reviews.
  • Firefox Tabbrowser API should be in good shape for the normal review process.
  • about:support is easily doable once core parts are moved to Toolkit.