What’s coming in firefox 3? by Andy Edmonds for BarCampAtl07

by Andy Edmonds for BarCampAtl07

Overview Mid 2008 release

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

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

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!

Highlights:

Storage API

Tabs

STABILITY!

SVG Gets Better RIA’s Don’t Require a Browser Plugin Demos Bubble Menu Image Collager

RIA’s Don’t Require a Browser Plugin

Demos

Bubble Menu

Image Collager

The Compound DOM Reuse CSS, Event Listeners

Reuse CSS, Event Listeners

Places SQLite for bookmarks, history True session model for history

SQLite for bookmarks, history

True session model for history

Supporting Revisitation From Alex Faaborg Commentary by Andy Edmonds

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

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

Hierarchical

Horizon Tree

Spiral Graph

Places Again SQLite for bookmarks, history True session model for history

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

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

Andy Edmonds, surmind.com

http://freeiq.com/andyed