XUL:Priority List: Difference between revisions

|Templates need to log syntax errors on the JS console or elsewhere.||

|Templates should have a means of matching values based on substrings, greater than a value, etc. || [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285631 285631]

|Better ways of doing databinding, for instance to XML, components, or JS objects.|| [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285631 285631]

|A [[XUL:Slider_Tag|slider tag]] (scale) for volume controls. Safari RSS has this and WebForms 2.0 will have this. We should make it work. || [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290255 290255]

|Get the <spinbuttons> widget to work. It's missing images currently. ||[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155053 155053].

|Fix all the existing XBL implemented elements so that they actually have all the methods of the interfaces they say they implement.||

|Editable treecells that allow editing via a textbox or a menulist. Fairly easy to implement for non-RDF trees, except for the caret being hidden when a view is above it issue.||

|Get the dtd handling working for remote content so that dialog/wizard and so on will work there. (AxelHecht) We need a good story here. There is the story that we can't/won't do a chrome registry for remote xul, that is, no fiddling of locales into URLs. Which may actually be a wise idea. Then you need to do some serverside processing to spin the DTD url into your content, which ends up in you being able to serve the DTD inline as well. But we need to iron this out, probably with a counter proposal to actually do URL munging for remote xul.||

|There needs to be a way of parsing XUL documents and fragments. DOMParser only parses XML. (NeilRashbrook) HTML parsing, too. Currently the best you can do is document.write() (AxelHecht) We need to check for DOM LS, jst, what's the status with that?||

|Improve chrome URLs so that name collisions aren't going to occur. (AxelHecht) proposal? Not sure what this is supposed to be. (NeilDeakin) BenjaminSmedberg proposed using namespaced package names in http://bdsmedberg.no-ip.org:8080/chrome/||

|Popups have a issues with certain content. We need to fix those.||

|Make it so that XBL can be attached without using CSS. Or, just make it so that XBL is available right a binding is applied.||[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265086 265086].

#currently when one wants to filter out results that don't match a condition, an empty rule has to be used. There should be a simple way to negate results.

#there are various targets and elements available through an event object but it seems that none of them are ever the one I want. Often they point to anonymous content. (AxelHecht) more detail here? (NeilDeakin) For example, for focus events, the target is the anonymous HTML input rather than the XUL element. (NeilRashbrook) This is because the focus event doesn't bubble so the onfocus handler has to be inherited onto the anonymous HTML input.

#get the element at a given coordinate, or set of elements.

#get XUL elements to work well in XML documents. (NeilRashbrook) Many of the XUL helper methods are currently defined on the XUL document. (AxelHecht) Is this part of my favorite content sink story or vice versa?

#way of making panels which arrange to fit, much like a Windows icon view. This can more or less be done with display: block, assuming that this doesn't change in upcoming CSS specs, but a tag for this would be nice. XAML calls this a FlowPanel and is a key layout primitive. (MinhNguyen) Java's AWT also has FlowLayout as the defalt layout manager.

#in addition, an icon object that can be dragged around in its container without having to write dragging code. (NeilRashbrook) Or at least the ability to capture the mouse while it's pseudo-dragging, so that all events get targetted at a specific element, avoiding hacks like listening for mouseup on the window element and hoping the mouse isn't released outside of the window.

#a clipboard API or wrapper that is easier to use. Meaning, one can cut and paste common types with only one or two lines of code. (NeilRashbook) I've always wondered why the clipboard helper only copies strings to the clipboard, you can't easily get them back.

#good drag and drop APIs, available for local and remote content.

#a means for the application to know when the item has been dropped onto another application.

#a means to know when a drag is cancelled. This is needed to tear down drop markers inserted into a document. Currently, you need to set up a timer and check for the continued existance of the drag session.  

#make sure that the Firefox toolbar customization is part of the toolkit.

#the stack is great for some positioned content, but there is a need to be able to have an absolutely positioned item or two without the need of a container, for example so that it can be moved about on the screen. Extensions, I'd imagine, would use this quite a bit. (NeilRashbook) [http://cards.mozdev.org/ Cards] seems to manage fine with a stack, although there's a hack to prevent the stack from expanding when items are dragged down or to the right.

#popups that can be non-rectangular or transparent, and have or not have title bars.

#something that allows applications to cache data. Currently, we have the network cache, and xul persistence in the local store, but they aren't very configurable. Possibility a way to store XML documents or RDF data. Also, provide access to cookies within XUL. (NeilRashbook) Move document.cookie to nsIDOMDocument perhaps? (AxelHecht) vlad is going to post something about this, just want to note that we need a good privacy/security story here, if this is supposed to be used widely.  

#a tag or collection of tags for easy web services. The <serverpost> is a good start for doing HTTP Post, which I'm including in the web services category. We need these kind of things so it is easy to send content to a remote site without having to resort to XMLHTTPRequest scripting. (AxelHecht) I'm not very fond of the idea as is, it seems like you're moving application logic into XML markup. Programming in XML is rather rare and Webservices are a rather generic thing to me, I have no vision on how this would help. If I'm wrong, should this go through the WHATWG? (AxelHecht) I have been thinking again. I bet we have two scenarios for webservices. One is to include the result of a soap or xmlrpc request into the document directly, the other is to generate content via the result, that is, we rather want to include webservices as XML datasources than just have them somewhere else, right? (NeilDeakin) Yes, we want to support web services as datasources for use in templates/databinding. Also, 'How do I post a form in XUL?' is a frequent question so there needs to be an easy way of doing a post. Calling SOAP and so forth takes a lot of code when it should be easy to send entered data to a remote site.

#panels that can be docked on the sides on the window or in some form of container. By clicking on some button, they become floating. This would be useful for floating palettes.

#ability to capture a window or parts of a window into an image. This is useful for creating thumbnails. (ChrisThomas) Is roc's drawWindow the solution to this?

#need to get the ActiveX control to work well with XUL, for instance, allowing it to recognize components and display new dialogs. (NeilRashbook) Java with XUL too. (AxelHecht) Lots of the layout points look very similar and ask for some kind of non-block non-inline non-xul-box layout scheme, right?

#ensure that scrolling APIs for getting and changing the scroll position in elements are available and usable in remote content. Also useful would be to have a scrollToPosition type function for textboxes.

#add some functions to the listbox so that creating multi-column items is easier.

#allow the XULSortService to be able to sort on non-RDF content, especially trees. Currently, it sorts only template built content. It would be great to allow arbitrary sorting, even if it might be slower for larger amounts of content. (NeilRashbrook) How would you specify the sort value and datatype?