status update
maintained by Chris Nelson <chrisn@statecollege.com>
Last Updated Sunday, January 31st, 1999
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Here are some top level highlights of where we are on platform parity: We achieved the main goal of the milestone which was to remove the major roadblocks to development work on Linux and Mac. These two platforms have seen some dramatic improvements in stability and functionally thanks to a number of great contributions. 88 Platform Parity related bugs were fixed in the last few weeks. For details run this bugzilla query. The bigger indication of parity might be the fact that apprunner on Windows, Linux, and Mac is loading a common XUL file and hyatt, ramiro, and saari have a pretty hot demo running off of code that is all checked in. One of the other goals of platform parity was to get a good assessment of how much additional work is needed to bring the platforms into alignment for smaller non-development-blocking things and get a listing of those tasks reflected in the bug systems. There is still some work to be done. This bugzilla query shows some of the PP work that will be continuing. The next milestone is what we are calling "Dogfood Ready" and the goal is to get a version of the client put together that can be used for all or parts of daily work. Here is a rough Draft Acceptance Criteria For Internal Mozilla/Netscape Dogfood Communicator.
Furball has this update for us: Grendel is coming along rather nicely at the moment. The menus are working finally. They're built out of XML. It's something like XUL. I'm building a dialog box builder that reads from XML description. In the long run, it would be extremely nice to get a widget builder that would read from XML description and build a complete window. That's a little further in the future. Edwin Woudt hacked the preference file manually as the dialog box for preferences isn't available yet and was able to verify that IMAP stores does indeed work. A screenshot can be found here http://www.djo.nl/grendel_with_imap.gif. This is a very good sign. So here's what we are working on:
I think that if we get dialog boxes up and running and mail sending works (none of that fancy attachments handling yet), then we are looking at an almost usable mail client. Getting the addressbook working would be an added bonus. Jeff and I are hoping that Grendel could be made usable again and have set ourselves a deadline for the mozilla.anniversary.
Chris Waterson writes in with this RDF update: This has been a week of many meetings and much gnashing of teeth as far as RDF goes. We are slowly making progress with the Mail/News folks, getting their data sources designed, etc. There has been a lot of discussion (internally and on n.p.m.rdf) about sorting and selecting data from datasources. Hyatt rewrote the tree widget (for the third time!), and now it uses NGLayout frames based on the table code. I am in the process of modifying the RDF-to-treewidget content model builder to compensate for the slight differences between the old and new content models. He has an awesome demo that you should bug him about: I think it was posted to n.p.m.xpfe this week. (Note: Click here to see screenshots!) Here's what Dave Hyatt had to say about the tree widget:
RJC is putting the finishing touches on the file system data source, which went into the tree earlier this week. He'll then be enjoying the sorting code...
Here's Akkana's update on the status of the editor (composer): It's almost starting to be usable! Selection is much improved -- it crosses frame boundaries, and shortly it will be possible to select non-text items as well as text. The backwards-typing bug has been fixed -- text is now inserted in the right order, and if something is selected, it is deleted before the text is inserted. A Copy/Paste framework now exists, hooked to the selection code, and sample implementations have been written for Windows and Mac (no Unix as yet). Preliminary specs are up on the web site (http://www.mozilla.org/editor/) for editor dialogs and for table editing.
Troy writes in with this update: On the layout front, Kipp's going to be developing full-time under Linux, so this week he's been setting machines up and getting his development environment going. I'm implementing support for fixed positioning and doing various bug fixes.
Vidur Apparao has the DOM update this week: The implementation of the DOM Level 1 Core interfaces is complete and ready for exhaustive testing. While Level 1 HTML and Level 0 are largely working, I'm next doing a completion pass on both.
Vidur Apparao has the DOM update this week: Matthew Zahorik gave me a BeOS port of NSPR this week and I reviewed and checked it in. This NSPR BeOS port has been successfully used in early ports of mozilla and Apache 2.0 pre-development builds. He thanks the following people for their contributions to the NSPR BeOS port:
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