Platform/2008-Q2-Goals

Goals Summary

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GFX

Mac OS X

  • Finish Gecko 1.9 work for release.
  • Create and begin following through on plans for Firefox 3.1 based on Firefox 3 feedback.
    • Most likely going to mean implementing Mac OS X look-and-feel features that we simply weren't able to finish for Firefox 3.0.
      • P1, Bug 54488, Non-draggable widgets in background windows should look disabled
  • Start work on Mozilla 2.
    • P1, Decomtaminate nsIMenu and nsIMenuItem, clean up nsIMenuBar interface
    • P1, General work to reduce Cocoa widgets code complexity and improve clarity.
    • P2, Clean up widget cross-platform XPCOM interfaces (widget/public/*)
    • P2, Make some progress towards 64-bit Gecko on Mac OS X
      • remove Carbon API usage
      • create plan for native types in Mac OS X code
      • create build configuration for 64-bit
  • Create plan for widget testing framework. This is going to be a difficult long-term project but we should be able to get through a good amount of the planning in this quarter. This will require more time to develop than most testing frameworks we have in place did because it is low-level, scriptability for native event handlers is difficult (we'll essentially have to figure out how to simulate native events on each platform), and the widgets "spec" is weakly defined.

Content

JS

Toolkit

Build System

Mozilla 2

Additional Goals