Actually, this summs up pretty much what I want...

http://www.e.kth.se/~e97_jsi/moz1.mp3

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"Ian Hickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>



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