2009 introspective

[Maksim Orlovich]

> Hi...
>
> I'm putting together a "where are we now, where are we going" snapshot of
> as
> many of the "big pieces" in KDE 4 as possible, and I'd like some input
> from
> you on Dolphin and Konqueror.
>
> In particular, what I'm looking for are 2-4 bullet items for each of these
> two
> questions:
>
> * What have been the defining achievements in the last year?

Note: please consider this a draft of sort --- I couldn't catch people I
wanted to review this, but I also don't want to keep you hanging.
>

For KHTML, and KJS, it would be rather hard to summarize it this short
accurately (I went through changelogs, and it came out as about a screen
worth of bullets), so let's see if I can make some -really- long bullets.

* New web APIs supported: CSS3 web fonts, CSS3 media queries, various
properties from a mixture of CSS3 modules, some fragments of HTML5, some
fragments of DOM3, etc.
* Performance, performance, performance: bytecode engine and other
optimizations in KJS. Significant CSS matching improvements. Significant
text wrapping optimizations. Lots of painting optimizations. Various
prefetching and preemption techniques to improve responsiveness.
* Lots and lots of compatibility and standard compliance bugfixes.
* And, foundations of important stuff: editing & SVG. Both are rather...
spartan in their functionality at the moment, but they're something to
build on.


> * What are the main focus points and or goals for the project in 2009?

Well, I think a big chunk will be building on the "foundations" listed
above --- especially with the GSoC project and editing. Beyond that, I
think our development tends to focus on attacking many angles
incrementally at once, and being responsive to the bug report traffic.