Mozilla 1.0 is coming soon, and mozilla.org have asked me to try to list
what standards compliance bugs should be highlighted in that context. As
this is an open project, I am asking for your help in doing this.
The importance criteria are apparently:
- bugs which currently cause problems on the web, or will do so in the
near future
- bugs that might come back to bite us later if we don't fix them
Unfortunately that covers a good 4000+ bugs, so we will have to narrow
them down a little if mozilla.org is to hit the target release date for
1.0 (sometime in March 2002) with the ability to say that lots of
standards compliance bugs were fixed.
Here are the bugs I have shortlisted, in no particular order, and the
reasons why:
41924 Change how layout handles broken images (alt text)
People keep complaining about this.
104035 Should use system cursor for 'pointer' (hand) on Windows
My flat mates say this is the one thing blocking their use of
Mozilla.
1777 'text-decoration' should not be drawn by children (underline)
This is one of the few major remaining CSS1 bugs.
5693 :hover should be hierarchical
This has been coming back to bite us for years.
98252 New W3C CSS page hurts Mozilla
We really should be usable on the W3C CSS page.
13213 events don't reach elements to top or left of view
This currently causes lots of problems on the web.
35984 Undeclared entities are ignored when external DTD not found
XML error handling is critical to the use of XML.
3935 mozilla-native psuedo classes and properties should be marked as such
This is hugely important to the future of the web.
86276 split to containing block is not working for XML
A major bug in XML-in-CSS styling.
34297 form controls with style="display: none;" unsuccessful in Mozilla
This is another bug that keeps biting people.
72360 Crash caused by attempting to create a circular frame list in tables
This would block the use of CSS tables due to it crashing Mozilla.
78094 Floats Are Broken
This is a very important CSS1 area.
97726 line-height&font-size
Serious W3C CSS1 test suite failure.
15405 Root element is stretching vertically to fit the viewport
Another serious CSS1 bug.
46918 line-breaking bug caused by +ve margin-right on inline elements
3490 line-breaking bug caused by -ve margin-right on inline elements
A couple of serious CSS1 bugs very visible on the W3C test suite.
There are plenty more important bugs -- but I'd like your help to decide
which are the most important. Please reply to this thread (and cc me)
giving a bug number and summary and explaining why your bug needs to be
fixed to match the two importance criteria. (Please keep your replies to
the n.p.mozilla.layout newsgroup.)
Note that Gerv has told me that this is not a list of "blockers" -- 1.0
might well ship with none of these bugs fixed. It's just supposed to be
an indicator of what bugs mozilla.org would _like_ us to work on.
--
Ian Hickson
