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There has been a lot of behind the scenes reshuffling at the Mozilla Project this week. Because of this, a number of the module names no longer apply; I used the old names this week. There should be new module names next week, and we should have more to report on the restructuring as the pieces fall into place.
Unix, GTK & NGLayout (until there's a new name)
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November 20th
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| Submitted by Mike Shaver <shaver@netscape.com> |
Mike Shaver writes in with a GTK specific update:
John Bandhauer writes in:
"I added a serious of pages rooted at
http://www.mozilla.org/js/jsd/jsd2/ to gather together ideas and
plans for the new JavaScript Debugger for Mozilla.
This is
planned to be an open source debugger integrated into Mozilla,
implemented in JavaScript as much as possible, and using XP
widgets for the UI."
Here's Akkana's update on the status of the editor (composer) through the transition:
- We've started to move our preliminary (very preliminary!) design specs
out onto mozilla.org, in case people are interested in commenting or
contributing.
- We've started checking in some code, under the mozilla/editor
directory. We're using the xpviewer as a base to add our editor
functionality; compile with the environment variable NGEDITOR=1 to
build the xpviewer with editor functionality enabled.
- Our main thrust over the next few weeks will involve selection, typing,
simple commands and the transaction manager.
Mike Pinkerton writes, "The XPToolkits group has been doing the following:
- assigning ownership of areas to engineers
- trying to solve the DOM vs. RDF debate
- writing specs for the XML-UI
- meeting with the mail team to try to get them to use XPTk
- writing web pages to show the mozilla community what is in our brains
- A lot of new stuff has appeared at http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe in the
last week."
JavaScript/Java Reflection
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November 20th
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| Submitted by Scott Furman<fur@netscape.com> |
It's been another quiet week in JavaScript-land (ECMA standards meetings
sucked up a lot of time).
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Mike McCabe is changing the way
some JS Array methods work to to track recent additions to the ECMA v2
spec.
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Scott Furman checked in some bug
fixes for JS1.4 Release 2 and LiveConnect version 3.
See all
the recent JS1.5 checkins.
Vidur Apparao writes in with his first update as the owner of the XML module...
Our XML support improved this week.
I gave a talk at XML '98 and, among other
things, showed the demo that can now be found off the page
http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/demo/index.html. (If you have a recent release of NGLayout, check this out - it's really impressive! -c)
Chris Waterson writes in with this RDF update:
- Got some new documentation published to http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/.
- Working on pluggable RDF data sources.
- Trying to figure out how to wire up stuff to the XPFE.
Kipp:
- fixed up percentage based padding and margins
- lots of bug fixes
- updated the viewer test app to better handle automated testing and web crawling
Steve (tables):
- fixed a gnarly column width balancing problem
- some minor bugs fixes in GetTableFrame and in code that computes nested table's container's width
- complete implementation of nsHTMLTableElement DOM interfaces
- implemented table height algorithms. We handle everything except <TD WIDTH=x%>
- made a slight modification to the way a table finds its container's
width
Troy:
- mostly XML work with Vidur
Pam Nunn writes in with this update:
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A function in if.cpp, il_image_complete(), has been tidied up.
- If you see a simple html file with an image tag not working properly
in NGLayout, it is probably
not an image problem, but a parser problem. see bugzilla #1461.
- Couldn't view your png images? You can now. NGLayout wasn't
recognizing the png mime type
as an interal format.
Patrick Beard writes:
- Most of the work of late involved getting Liveconnect to work on Win32
and Mac. On Win32 we use JDK1.2 based plugin from Javasoft and on Mac we
use MRJ 2.1EA3 from Apple.
- We reached a significant milestone on Win32. We are now able to make
secure calls from JS to Java and vice-versa. Java and Javascript stack
frames are chained together to get the desired secure liveconnect
functionality. On Mac we are able to go both ways as well but security is
not implemented yet.
- For upcoming weeks we plan on stabilizing APIs, running a series of tests and
fixing as many bugs before we land into the tip. Currently we are developing
in the old codebase (MozillaSourceClassic_19981026_BRANCH) trying to get
OJI more stable. Solaris plugin is coming along well but it is not API
complete yet. We plan to stick in this branch for some more time until we
feel the tip is stable and has enough functionality to support us. Most of
the API is in place, so feel free to integrate a VM of your choice! We will
be documenting our OJI interfaces to make it easier on developers.
Chris Yeh writes in to say, "Autoconf became the default build system today after the static
Makefiles that comprise the nglayout source were cvs removed.
Static makefiles still exist in several other sections in the tree (most
notably the sections that were used to build MozillaClassic). These may
get pruned over time.
(on a side note, it gave me the willies to be cvs removing nearly 100
Makefiles at one time.)
Autoconf for the Windows builds is still being investigated, but we've
run into a few dead ends, the most severe of which is that the configure
script requires the GNU bash shell. The current Windows toolset assumes
a DOS Shell and has been proven on several occasions to not work well
with other 'foreign' shells.
One of the more interesting ideas being kicked around is to implement a
subset of autoconf/configure functionality by using perl to dynamically
change static makefiles in the tree. We don't know how feasible this is
yet or who would be willing to take on the work."
Sarah writes, "Today (nov 20) the classic makefiles are being retired from the Unix
world. Autoconf is the one and only build system
new module names are on their way. Raptor will return to it's pristine
existance, and SeamonkeyBrowser, SeamonkeyMail, SeamonkeyCore,
SeamonkeyLayout, SeamonkeyEditor, and SeamonkeyXPTk are coming. (names
subject to change to protect the innocent.)"
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