Firefox 3 In Alpha

illeism writes to note that, a mere six weeks after the launch of Firefox 2, Firefox 3 is now available in alpha. CNet reports that it is currently recommended only for software developers and testers. The big change is the upgraded Gecko rendering engine (the UI is unchanged from version 2). From the CNet article: "Firefox 3 will include some significant changes. It uses version 1.9 of the Gecko rendering engine — which itself hasn't been released yet but which includes the Cairo graphics layer. Gecko 1.9 has been in development since before the release of Firefox 2, and it provides vector-based rendering on all platforms. As the Gecko 1.9 road map explains, Cairo will 'bring modern, hardware-accelerated 2D-graphics capabilities to the whole of the Web without requiring proprietary plug-ins or rendering obsolete the broad and rich set of Web-authoring techniques developed over the past decade.'"

Comments

What does this mean?

[aussie_a]

Sorry, I left my marketspeak chip in the other bot. Can anyone translate this to English:

Cairo will 'bring modern, hardware-accelerated 2D-graphics capabilities to the whole of the Web without requiring proprietary plug-ins or rendering obsolete the broad and rich set of Web-authoring techniques developed over the past decade. Without my marketspeak chip I translate that to say "We'll be doing things faster and still supporting HTML." Please tell me I got that wrong. Do they really need to specify "We support HTML" in a browser engine? And even if they did, why did they need to translate it to marketspeak? Do they have a brand new marketing droid they just couldn't wait to use?

Re:Acid2

[luserSPAZ]

Let me know when you've got that regression test suite done that tests the entire internet. I'm sure we can get it checked into CVS. Thanks!

Cairo

[stud9920]

Personally, I'll wait for Chicago.

Re:Too bad

[Lord Ender]

What? You mean it doesn't support MS DOS 3.0 anymore? BOO FIREFOX!