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| The Layout Team is primarily responsible for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_%28layout_engine%29 Gecko Layout Engine]. A programmer's primer is posted here: | | The Platform Layout Team is primarily responsible for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_%28layout_engine%29 Gecko's] style system and layout engine. We strive to build and maintain an engine that is both high-performance and standards-compliant, while providing support for features unique to Firefox. |
| https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Overview
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| == Quarterly Planning ==
| | The team's technical domains within Gecko include: |
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| See the [[Platform/Planning | Platform Planning page]] for info on our meetings that occur 2-3 times a year to plan features.
| | * CSS animations and transitions |
| | * CSS parsing and computation |
| | * Layout (of all types, including block and inline, positioned, columns, floats, flexbox, grid, form controls, images, video, tables, and text) |
| | * Printing |
| | * SVG |
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| == Feature Planning == | | == Contact Information == |
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| * Goals of new features: | | * '''IRC''': [https://irccloud.mozilla.com/#!/ircs://irc1.dmz.scl3.mozilla.com:6697/%23layout #layout on irc.mozilla.org] |
| ** UI layout
| | * '''E-mail''': [https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout dev-tech-layout@lists.mozilla.org] |
| ** Magazines/ebook layout | |
| ** Language support
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| * [[Platform/Layout/CSS|CSS]]
| | == Contributing == |
| ** Flexbox
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| *** horizontal/vertical
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| *** single/multi-line
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| ** Grid Layout
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| ** Pagination
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| *** Pagination controls
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| *** Better pagination (tables, abspos)
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| ** CSS Conditional
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| *** @supports
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| ** CSS Variables
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| ** CSS Images
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| *** gradients (syntax changes, animation)
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| * Need better proposals for
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| ** CSS Regions
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| ** CSS Exclusions
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| * Other
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| ** CSS Paginated Overflow
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| ** Scrolling APIs
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| ** Ruby
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| ** Seamless IFRAME / media queries
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| * [[Platform/Layout/Text|Text]]
| | To get started, read the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Overview programmer's primer on Gecko]. |
| ** Mobile Readability
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| ** Writing Modes (vertical text, etc.)
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| ** Graphite
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| ** Ruby
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| * [[Platform/Layout/Responsiveness|Responsiveness/Performance]]
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| ** View removal
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| ** Display-List based invalidation
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| ** SVG Display-List conversion
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| ** Font cache performance improvements
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| == Development Planning ==
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| * [[Platform/Layout/BugKill|BugKill - make our bug lists containable in one person's head]]
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| == Other Information ==
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| * [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Layout_DOM_Work_Week_-_March_2012 DOM/Layout Work Week 2012]
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| * [https://intranet.mozilla.org/GraphicsLayoutWorkWeek-November2011 GFx/Layout Work Week 2011]
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