Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 5 Released

mozilla.org released the fifth alpha of Mozilla 1.8 on 2004-11-22. This release includes about 570 bug fixes. A large portion of the changes happened at the Gecko core, including XFT, new XForm and SVG featurs, and experimental CSS column support. Here are some (91) of the major fixes:

Changes

Accessibility

• 267188 - [MSAA] Expose tab number out of number of tabs in tab description
• 267190 - [MSAA] Fire events for jump to named anchor
• 262578 - Focus outlines on css scrollable areas should only apply to keyboard based navigation.

Gecko

SVG

• 264370 - implement SVGDocument.rootElement
• 264380 - implement SVGTextContentElement.getComputedTextLength
• 264580 - implement SVGSVGDocument.current{Scale,Translate}
• 267195 - implement svg opacity property
• 262469 - implement svg visibilty
• 263550 - Respect overflow attribute of svg:svg
• 263550 - Implement SVG Gradients
• 134708 - SVG fragments should be composited with their background (transparent SVG gets white bg)

XForms

• 253225 - Land XTF branch
• 256744 Integrate Novell master dependency graph code
• 267612 - <label> implementation
• 268578 - <xforms:submit> implementation
• 267300 - <output> implmentation
• 265471 - Support nesting of <bind> elements
• 265933 - cloneNode() does not work for XTF elements
• 263705 - support multiple instances per model
• 264991 - Support xforms submission replace attribute]

CSS

• 251498 - Implement outline-offset
• 251162 - Implement CSS3 columns
• 24676 - [BORDER ROUNDED]Need -moz-outline-radius

Other

• 259935 - document.all can be easily detected
• 240408 - Allow browser to handle <embed> content
• 88987 - (Remove XMP, LISTING, and PLAINTEXT from strict mode)
• 245434 - text is hidden when nested tables are used
• 266868 - can't click a link that extends out of a layout-table:fixed table
• 260955 - XUL preprocessor should apply filters to #include @VAR@/somepath
• 244290 - Propagate view update batching to the root viewmanager
• 262474 - element.setAttribute('class',...) has no visible effect after onload
• 262624 - normal (default value) content in generated text with :after and :before does not override more general rule with content set
• 263244 - Alternate text of broken images not rendered in quirks mode
• 263406 - abs/fixed pos handling (placeholder, etc) needs consolidation
• 203211 - pay attention to content-policies when loading XSLT stylesheets (nsIContentPolicy)

JavaScript

• 261886 - Must always evaluate delete operand expression - ECMA compliance
• 261887 - for..in statement vs. delete - ECMA compliance
• 247323 - <iframe src="javascript:1"/> partially hoses Mozilla

Browser

• 265680 - Websites may turn caret browsing on and off using synthetic events
• 226099 - [RFE] Highlight "<![CDATA[" and matching "]]>" in View Source
• 260335 - "Colors" are not lockable in Preferences->Appearance->Colors page (color/colour picker)
• 268260 - There is currently no way for users to set prefs for plugins
• 28998 - Proxy: Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD)
• 260818 - Pop up an alert when a download finishes
• 267169 - "Home" button should open home page in new tab if middle-clicked
• 239472 - Page Info -> media -> Save As... doesn't work

Mail & Newsgroups

• 177093 - Ability to create filters for Local Folders
• 256688 - Message grouping (like threading, but by subject/from/other field rather than by followups)
• 185184 - Add an option to download only mail headers from POP account
• 245331 - truncatting long filename of attachment
• 249240 - Password dialog for POP/IMAP server does not reprompt when password is changed externally.
• 259603 - junk mail plugin doesn't run on messages in folder if you move to another folder before mail retrieval completes
• 269487 - junk mail plugin doesn't run on filtered pop3 mail
• 237609 - ghost INBOX^ folders
• 187145 - Putting messages in deleted status while I'm offline
• 199298 - Import from Outlook moves msg body to Part 1.1 attachment
• 251297 - files in /tmp world readable (email attachments, helper app docs)
• 264467 - Crash if a folder is renamed to anything containing forward slash (/) [@ nsMsgLocalMailFolder::Rename]
• 266543 - deleting last message in dummy thread leaves ghost dummy thread

Security

• 259120 - default option should be "no, dont visit" on username/PW URLs
• 249322 - multiline urls in address bar allow spoofing
• 265987 - Cross-tab scripting issue
• 173010 - [URL] Whitelist for launching safe external protocols and blocking unsafe
• 69070 - do not allow http: documents to load images from file: via <IMG> (call checkloaduri for security)
• 257523 - Text fields give scripts access to the user's clipboard
• 263263 - Dialog box asks if I meant to load www.google.com. If I answer no, it loads anyway.

Chatzilla

• 248746 - Show away status in userlist
• 261711 - Auto-whois data spews all over the current tab
• 263760 - /leave doesn't work for Unicode (non-ASCII) channels
• 233973 - logs should be separated in different files by day

API, etc.

• 252067 - Add support for translucent windows for Win32 (Windows 2000 and later)
• 113232 - support transparent non-rectangular chrome windows
• 99615- Freeze nsIPromptService
• 99639 - Freeze nsIWebProgress and nsIWebProgressListener
• 265334 - Add API for observing all data coming through the parser.
• 261790 - port various changes betwen xpfe/toolkit
• 265998 - Gecko SDK does not include NSPR import libs
• 261922 - Upgrade to libpng-1.2.7
• 248644 - Upgrade to zlib 1.2.2
• 131826 - upgrade zlib version in cmd/zlib
• 256971 - Identity manager is missing for movemail accounts.

Others

• 268235 - Make layout debugger show pseudo-styles
• 264461 - Installer windows shuffle offscreen with each step when windows taskbar located at top or left of screen.
• 237745 - split app-startup from core appshell functionality
• 266835 - Sends wrong FTP password for anonymous:userpasswd@server
• 233108 - Make checkLoadURI configurable by-site
• 249462 - Put official XPI building tools and files into CVS
• 239977 - Support ISO 639-2 code "tlh" for Klingon
• 88579 - Bad default Traditional Chinese font (MS Windows)
• 259001 - port NSPR to Solaris on AMD64 architecture
• 259003- port NSS to Solaris AMD64