Platform/2008-Q2-Goals

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.
    • Identify and fix 1 major look and feel issue for Firefox 3.1
• Start work on Mozilla 2.
  • P1, Decomtaminate nsIMenu and nsIMenuItem, clean up nsIMenuBar interface.
    • Estimated to take Josh 1 week.
  • P2, Clean up widget cross-platform XPCOM interfaces (widget/public/*)
    • Have Josh spend 1 week doing this in the first half of June.
  • P1, General work to reduce Cocoa widgets code complexity and improve clarity.
    • Have Josh spend 2 weeks doing this in the second half of June.
  • P2, Make some progress towards 64-bit Gecko on Mac OS X. Examples include...
    • 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.