Platform/2010-Q2-Goals

General Goals

• [ON TRACK] Zero reproducible sg:crits.
• [ON TRACK] Multiprocess Jetpack Extensions in a milestone.
• [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.

Layout

• [ON TRACK] Improve responsiveness with hardware compositing.
  • [ON TRACK] Retained layers on by default in an alpha.
  • [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. -Need a list here.

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] Critical JM components in place to assess performance
  • [ON TRACK] PIC
  • [ON TRACK] Dual stack layout
  • [ON TRACK] Minimize loads and stores of temporary values
• [ON TRACK] JM shippable conformance and stability, perhaps not yet fast enough

• [ON TRACK] Continue to improve responsiveness: GC
• [ON TRACK] ES5 complete
• [ON TRACK] browser overhead largely eliminated
• [ON TRACK] JSD designed by May 1, and scheduled for the remainder of Q2 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/JSDebugv2

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! Beta? Really? How about just a prototype?
• [ON TRACK] Beta release of multi-process browsing on Fennec/Maemo Coordination with Mobile team needed.

Non-goal: Multi-process browsing in Firefox.