From e7366bf41f68cfe07e9ea03fc4a398baecbae651 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Silverstone Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 09:41:13 +0000 Subject: Initial conversion from MediaWiki, 20170204 --- development_plan.mdwn | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 98 insertions(+) create mode 100644 development_plan.mdwn (limited to 'development_plan.mdwn') diff --git a/development_plan.mdwn b/development_plan.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9e8f55 --- /dev/null +++ b/development_plan.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +[[!meta title="Development Plan"]] +[[!meta author="Chris"]] +[[!meta date="2014-05-11T18:53:19Z"]] + + +[[!toc]] This is a planning +document covering NetSurf development and release goals. + +General +------- + +Historical NetSurf 2 and before +------------------------------- + +These editions are now completely obsolete and upgrading is recommended. + +The SVN revision control system and RISC OS only autobuilder were used +to provide rudimentary CI. + +Releases were principally manual in nature and were oriented around +stability and incremental improvements. + +Development concentrated on expanding functionality in a progression +towards important core functionality. + +Major completed milestones in the 2.x series were: + +- The Hubbub parse library and integrating into NetSurf +- The LibCSS CSS library and integation into NetSurf + +NetSurf 3 +--------- + +This is the current release series where development is concentrated. + +We use git for our [control +system](http://git.netsurf-browser.org|source) and have a full multi +platform [Integration](http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/|Continuous) +system. + +### Improvements in 3.0 + +The first release in the 3 series had several important technical +improvements the main ones were: + +- LibDOM Document Object Model library completed and integrated with + NetSurf +- Libraries using the core buildsystem +- Script support including Spidermonkey javascript interpreter and + basic DOM bindings +- Integrated frame support +- Integrated core treeview allowing for all frontends to benefit from + global history, bookmarks, cookie management + +### The 3 series development overview + +The focus of this series will be on: + +- improving speed and memory efficiency +- improvement of user interaction, e.g. with form widgets +- treeview improvements. +- Improve url database handling +- Improve coockie handling +- Improving DOM integration +- No major improvements are planned for the layout engine until + NetSurf 4.0. +- APNGs are already used in the wild (unlike MNG). While we can + display the first frame, thanks to PNG backwards compatibility, it + would be good to support the animation extension. +- We have always put XHTML though an HTML parser, which works well + enough currently, but it will be good to handle XHTML properly. + +### Active 3 release + +We maintain a page for the forthcoming release listing specific issues +for that release. + +Next release will be [[NetSurf_3.2|netsurf_3.2]] + +Netsurf 4 +--------- + +The focus of this release will be a +[[new layout engine|layout]]. The new layout engine +will enable dynamic changes to pages such as `:hover`, reflowing for +scrollbar insertion. + +It will also add support for features missing from the old layout engine +such as `z-index` and `vertical-align`. + +Javascript DOM integration should be completed and use the dynamic +layout capabilities. + +### Core features + +- [[New layout engine|layout]], capable of dynamic + changes + -- cgit v1.2.3