Maintenant que Firefox 3.6 a rejoint le club des versions stable, Mozilla s'est mis en route pour la prochaine version de son navigateur phare alias Firefox qui, à terme, arrivera en version 3.7... ou 3.6.5... enfin bref, on ne sait pas encore.
Mais la seule chose dont on est sûr, c'est que la 1ère alpha de la version 3.7 vient de sortir des fourneaux de chez Mozilla. Contenant le moteur Gecko 1.9.3 lui aussi en alpha 1, le navigateur apporte les changements suivants par rapport à la version 3.6 :
Gecko 1.9.3 Alpha 1 introduces several new features which can be tested by using this Mozilla Developer Preview. Many of these features are still in development, and while they will likely appear in some future version of Mozilla Firefox, some may be in earlier versions than others.
- Support for CSS Transitions. This support is not quite complete: support for animation of transforms and gradients has not yet been implemented.
- Support for SMIL Animation in SVG. Support for animating some SVG attributes is still under development and the
animateMotion
element isn't supported yet.- Support for WebGL, which is disabled by default but can be enabled by changing a preference. See this blog post and this blog post for more details.
- Support for the
getClientRects
andgetBoundingClientRect
methods onRange
objects. See bug 396392 for details.- Support for the
setCapture
andreleaseCapture
methods on DOM elements. See bug 503943 for details.- Support for the HTML5
History.pushState()
andHistory.replaceState()
methods and thepopstate
event. See bug 500328 for details.- Support for the
-moz-image-rect()
value forbackground-image
. See bug 113577 for more details.We are interested in feedback on any bugs or missing capabilities in these new features.
It also contains several other significant changes:
- On Mac OS X, we render text using Core Text rather than ATSUI.
- We rewrote major parts of the code for handling scrolling. See bug 526394 for details.
- We rewrote the way a snapshot of a document is taken in order to print or print preview. See bug 487667 for details.
- We made significant changes to table border handling. See bug 452319 and bug 43178 for details.
- We made various architectural changes to improve Web page performance.
Some of the changes will affect web and platform compatibility. For detailed information about compatibility changes in Gecko 1.9.3, please read Upcoming Firefox features for developers.
Consulter la liste des bugs/changements de l'alpha 1 de Firefox 3.7 (attention, la liste est trèèès longue)
Naturellement, une chose n'est pas présente dans ce changelog car pas activé par défaut, la gestion des processus-par-plugins (OOPP : Out-Of-Process-Plugins) qui pourrait être (si vous en avez l'audace) testé en mettant la variable dom.ipc.plugins.enabled sur true, mais ce n'est pas réellement recommandé car très instable.
Comme toujours, Mozilla Firefox reste multiplateforme à un changement près : le support de MacOS X 10.4 a été abandonné ! Par ailleurs, cette alpha n'est disponible qu'en anglais.
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