I would also like to bring to the team's attention another force worth being on the radar (in terms of "forces on the system") - accessibility. One theme that seems to consistently happen with re-writes such as the ones from xul to React is regressions in terms of accessibility of newly re-written components.
thanks, yura On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Philipp Kewisch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/20/17 7:47 PM, Dave Townsend wrote: > > For some time now we've been talking about moving away from XUL and XBL. > > The browser architecture team has been hard at work figuring out how to > go > > about doing that and we're ready to share the first of our proposals more > > widely. We have developed a plan to remove XBL from Firefox. It's been > > through a successful design review with some of the key engineers and now > > is the time for more comments if you have them. We're planning to start > some > > of the work this quarter with it really ramping up next quarter. > > > > Take a look at the plan > > <https://mozilla.github.io/firefox-browser-architecture/ > text/0007-xbl-design-review-packet.html> > > and let us know what you think. There are a couple of areas where we are > > still investigating concerns: > > I very much welcome this plan, especially the fact that Web Components > is part of the replacement. Last time I asked, it sounded like Web > Components was still on the way of being reimplemented and pending some > spec work. In following the webcomponents bug I see there has been > constant progress. > > Nevertheless, I'd appreciate if someone could comment on how far along > the Web Components implementation is. Is it now following the agreed > upon version of the spec (I suspect yes), and is the implementation > stable enough that you would consider it ready to ship? What is the next > big milestone for Web Components? > > Thunderbird/Lightning uses a lot of XBL components as well that I would > love to get rid of, I am looking forward to making things more > compatible with the future. > > Thanks, > Philipp > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
