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Testing
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- Bugzilla
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Layout Engine Technical Documentation

Current documentation

See also the Gecko Wiki page.

Reflow
- Reflow refactoring design (2006)
- block-and-line layout cheat sheet
  - Space Manager high level design and Space Manager detailed design
- Table cellmap and layout strategy description
- How to debug reflow and how to debug table reflow
- running the regression tests
Style System (incomplete)
- Adding CSS properties
Techtalks
- DOM Implementation and Scriptability (2002-03-18, jst): video, slides
- Introduction to Layout in Mozilla (2002-06-10, waterson): slides (and original powerpoint slides)
- Style System Overview (2002-06-24, dbaron): slides
- Table Reflow Internals (2002-08-05, karnaze): slides
- Layout debugging/triaging (2004-02-22, bernd) : slides
- Gecko and DOM architecure (2006-12-08, jst): video
- Layout (2006-12-14, dbaron): slides, video
- Gecko and Layout (2007-09-08, dbaron): slides, video

Design documents from 1998