What’s coming in firefox 3?

by Andy Edmonds for BarCampAtl07

Overview

•Mid 2008 release

A New Image Format

•Animated PNGs

•Watchout, it’ll be 1997 all over again

•Much better transparency

•Demo: http://people.mozilla.com/~dolske/apng/demo.html

Feature Grab Bag

•Policy enabled cross site xml http request

•Application Features

•navigator.online

•a (href) ping

•Offline support, very similar to Flash localObjects, from WhatWG spec

FUEL Javasript Library

•Highlights:

•Storage API

•Tabs

•STABILITY!

SVG Gets Better

•RIA’s Don’t Require a Browser Plugin

•Demos

•Bubble Menu

•Image Collager

The Compound DOM

•Reuse CSS, Event Listeners

Places•SQLite for

bookmarks, history

•True session model for history

Supporting Revisitation

•From Alex Faaborg

•Commentary by Andy Edmonds

A Brief Digression into Graphs, Trees,

and Lists•Current Browser History “Trimbs the Tree”

•A->B, B->C, C->B, B-D yields

•ABD in history

•How do we solve this? It’s not easy...

•Oh, and since we punted this problem, we got tabs

Possible Solutions?

•Hierarchical

•Horizon Tree

•Spiral Graph

Places Again•SQLite for

bookmarks, history

•True session model for history

Performance!

•http://www.surfmind.com/lab/moz/screenplay/mission2.html

•Majorly noticable OS X Improvements

•Plus more native UI

Thanks & Happy Hacking

•Andy Edmonds, surmind.com

•http://freeiq.com/andyed