Layout Engine Technical Documentation
Current documentation
See also the Gecko Wiki page and Mozilla automated testing, where most new documentation is being added.
- Reflow
- Reflow refactoring design (2006)
- block-and-line layout cheat sheet
- Table cellmap and layout strategy description
- How to debug reflow and how to debug table reflow
- running the regression tests (obsolete)
- Style System (incomplete)
- Techtalks
- DOM Implementation and Scriptability (2002-03-18, jst): video, slides
- Introduction to Layout in Mozilla (2002-06-10, waterson): slides (and original powerpoint slides)
- Style System Overview (2002-06-24, dbaron): slides
- Table Reflow Internals (2002-08-05, karnaze): slides
- Layout debugging/triaging (2004-02-22, bernd) : slides
- Gecko and DOM architecure (2006-12-08, jst): video
- Layout (2006-12-14, dbaron): slides, video
- Gecko and Layout (2007-09-08, dbaron): slides, video
Design documents from 1998
- Modularization
- Base
- Content Model
- DOM
- Forms
- Rendering
- Layout
- Parser (see also: Tag Reference Chart)
- Plug-ins and Java
- Printing
- Style
- Threading
- View System
- WebWidget (embeddable API)
- Widgets (buttons, etc.)