FirefoxSummit/2006/ProposedSessions/FrameConstruction

Session Title

Fixing Frame Construction

Session Leader

David Baron

Summary

Discussion of what design changes need to happen to frame construction to avoid:

• crash bugs
• standards compliance bugs, especially when combining less common features

Agenda

Discussion of requirements:

• handling dynamic changes
  • performance characteristics
  • correctness
• cases where frame tree not isomorphic to content tree
  • 'display:none'
  • XBL
  • :before/:after
  • wrapped frames (table inner/outer, scrollframes)
  • frames that wrap certain children (table pseudo, box/block)

and then of what implementation changes we can make so that the code better matches what it's supposed to be doing. Note that the discussion of implementation changes will be pretty open, since I don't think anybody has any answers yet (although I have some vague ideas).

Interested Attendees

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• David Baron (leader)
• Steven Michaud
• Olli Pettay
• tor
• Roc
• Jesse Ruderman