Platform/2008-09-23

Beta 1 Schedule
- en-US string freeze is Thursday, Sept 26th at 11:59pm PDT
- code freeze is Tuesday, Sept 30th at 11:59pm PDT
Beta 2 Schedule
- en-US string freeze is Thursday, October 30th at 11:59pm PDT
- code freeze is Tuesday, November 4th at 11:59pm PDT
Please take a look at the feature list and get things missing added, and update status for things you own: Firefox3.1/Features#Gecko_1.9.1
See the security review schedule page to get your review scheduled ASAP!

Working on various 1.9.1 blockers
Working to remove incorrect fs stat caches, goal is to avoid bad stat data which could cause all manner of filesystem issues for nsIFile users
Plugin work, in pursuit of plugin testing framework, accessibility fixes, and Cocoa event model
- Working on NPAPI headers set for consistency (WebKit and Gecko should expose and build off of the exact same set of headers)
- working on NPAPI SDK including sample plugins
- working on incorrect native events attached to synthesized DOM events
- working on a spec to allow for plugins to not eat events when they don't handle them

1.9.1 Layout Bugs
Video (roc/cdouble):
Acid3:
SMIL (dholbert):
- Addressing review comments from roc
- Posting updated patch for further review today, probably.
SVG CSS, roc:

Content 1.9.1 Bugs
Worker Threads:
- DOM worker XHR-X ready to land
- Next up is catching up with the spec changes.
Cross-site XHR:
- The parts that are done are being reviewed, some missing new spec issues still to code up.
Speculative <script src="..."> loading:
- Looking good, already speculatively parses scripts. Cleanup etc still to be done.
- Speculative loading of images and other resources to be split into separate bugs.
JIT->DOM:
- Some proof of concept code/experiments tested out already.
- Peterv will be in town next week to pick up part of this work with Andreas.

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