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** Direct2D support, turned on for at least some subset of hardware. (This depends on RelEng - {{bug|549120}}!)
** Direct2D support, turned on for at least some subset of hardware. (This depends on RelEng - {{bug|549120}}!)
* Improve CSS3 font support by implementing Harfbuzz for simple scripts on Tier-1 platforms in a developer preview, and creating a CSS3 font test suite.
* Improve CSS3 font support by implementing Harfbuzz for simple scripts on Tier-1 platforms in a developer preview, and creating a CSS3 font test suite.
* Improve CSS3 font support to N% feature completeness for simple scripts on Tier-1 platforms in a developer preview, and creating a CSS3 font test suite.


=== Layout ===
=== Layout ===

Revision as of 00:56, 23 March 2010

General Goals

  • [ON TRACK] Zero reproducible sg:crits.
  • [ON TRACK] Multiprocess Jetpack Extensions in an alpha.
  • [ON TRACK] IndexDB implementation (partial) in an alpha.
  • [ON TRACK] html5 parser on by default in a beta.
  • [ON TRACK] Out of process plugins for the Mac on by default in beta.
  • [ON TRACK] TBD% reduction in empty-xul-window gecko initialization time.

GFX

  • Improve interactive performance by shipping, in a developer preview:
    • Layers implementations based on Direct3D 10, OpenGL, and OpenGL ES; and
    • Direct2D support, turned on for at least some subset of hardware. (This depends on RelEng - bug 549120!)
  • Improve CSS3 font support by implementing Harfbuzz for simple scripts on Tier-1 platforms in a developer preview, and creating a CSS3 font test suite.
  • Improve CSS3 font support to N% feature completeness for simple scripts on Tier-1 platforms in a developer preview, and creating a CSS3 font test suite.

Layout

  • [ON TRACK] Improve responsiveness with hardware compositing.
    • [ON TRACK] Retained layers on by default in a dev preview.
    • [ON TRACK] Integrated chrome/content rendering and child widget removal on trunk.
  • [ON TRACK] New CSS features on trunk, e.g. calc() or text-overflow.

Content

  • [ON TRACK] Make the web better (be faster, enable the HTML5 parser, land WebSockets, movement on IndexDB and XBL2)
  • [ON TRACK] Make the web safer (zero sg:critical bugs, disable remote XUL and XBL, sanitize our security code)
  • [ON TRACK] Provide better support for developer tooling

JS

  • [ON TRACK] This is a goal.

Accessibility

  • [ON TRACK] Make us more agile with respect to evolving accessibility specifications
  • [ON TRACK] Expose a more correct tree of information to improve the experience for users of assistive technology
  • [ON TRACK] Double our performance when handling dynamic web pages [stretch goal]


Multi-Process

  • [ON TRACK] Final release of multi-process plugins on Windows/Linux.
  • [ON TRACK] Beta release of multi-process Flash on Mac Snow Leopard, x86 and x86-64.
  • [ON TRACK] Beta release of multi-process Jetpacks. Coordination with Labs/Firefox needed!
  • [ON TRACK] Beta release of multi-process browsing on Fennec/Maemo Coordination with Mobile team needed.

Non-goal: Multi-process browsing in Firefox.