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The Layout Team is primarily responsible for the Gecko Layout Engine. A programmer's primer is posted here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Overview
Quarterly Planning
See the Platform Planning page for info on our meetings that occur 2-3 times a year to plan features.
Feature Planning
- Goals of new features:
- UI layout
- Magazines/ebook layout
- Language support
- CSS
- Flexbox
- horizontal/vertical
- single/multi-line
- Grid Layout
- Pagination
- Pagination controls
- Better pagination (tables, abspos)
- CSS Conditional
- @supports
- CSS Variables
- CSS Images
- gradients (syntax changes, animation)
- Flexbox
- Need better proposals for
- CSS Regions
- CSS Exclusions
- Other
- CSS Paginated Overflow
- Scrolling APIs
- Ruby
- Seamless IFRAME / media queries
- Text
- Mobile Readability
- Writing Modes (vertical text, etc.)
- Graphite
- Ruby
- Responsiveness/Performance
- View removal
- Display-List based invalidation
- SVG Display-List conversion
- Font cache performance improvements