Platform/Layout: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:47, 28 March 2012

The Layout Team is primarily responsible for the Gecko Layout Engine. A programmer's primer is posted here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Overview

See the Platform Planning page for info on our meetings that occur 2-3 times a year to plan features.

CSS
- Flexbox
  - horizontal/vertical
  - single/multi-line
- Grid Layout
- Pagination
  - Pagination controls
  - Better pagination (tables, abspos)
- CSS Conditional
  - @supports
- CSS Images
  - gradients (syntax changes, animation)
Need better proposals for
- CSS Regions
- CSS Exclusions
Other
- CSS Paginated Overflow
- Scrolling APIs
- Ruby
- Seamless IFRAME / media queries

Text
- Mobile Readability
- Writing Modes (vertical text, etc.)
- Graphite
- Ruby
Responsiveness/Performance
- View removal
- Display-List based invalidation
- SVG Display-List conversion
- Font cache performance improvements

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 == Feature Planning ==
+* Goals of new features:
+** UI layout
+** Magazines/ebook layout
+** Language support
 * [[Platform/Layout/CSS|CSS]]
-** CSS flexbox
+** Flexbox
-** CSS Grid
+*** horizontal/vertical
-** CSS Breaks
+*** single/multi-line
-** Magazine-style Layout (CSS Regions/Exclusions or alternative proposals.)
+** Grid Layout
+** Pagination
+*** Pagination controls
+*** Better pagination (tables, abspos)
+** CSS Conditional
+*** @supports
 ** CSS Images
 *** gradients (syntax changes, animation)
-*** CSS @supports
+* Need better proposals for
-*** CSS Paginated Overflow
+** CSS Regions
+** CSS Exclusions
+* Other
+** CSS Paginated Overflow
+** Scrolling APIs
+** Ruby
+** Seamless IFRAME / media queries
 * [[Platform/Layout/Text|Text]]
 ** Mobile Readability