Netbeans71 CSS HTML Plan
CSS & HTML Features Plan for Netbeans 7.1
HTML
| Priority
| Feature
| Description
| Issues
| Milestone
| State
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| P2
| Javascript APIs
| HTML5 has introduced some new DOM elements and javascript APIs so the JS support should be extended to cover them.
| -
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| P4
| Completion & documentation for the SVG and MATHML content
| Documentation for the SVG and MATHML tags is not available as well as the code completion doesn't provide the tags' attributes and their documentation.
| -
|
|
| P1
| P1 HTML validator options
|
- disable/enable the validation for project/foder/file
- configure default html doctype for fragments for project/folder/file
- configure the validator issues - allow to enable/disable/change severity of particular issues
| -
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|
| P3
| code completion for doctypes
| -
| -
|
|
| P4
| Missing class/id error check + hintfix
| If a class or id used in an html page is undefined in any of the bound stylesheets, then a warning is displayed for such tag with a hintfix "Generate missing class/id". The fix will add new class/id into the associated stylesheet, in case there are more user can choose (including generating <style>...</style> section inside the html itself. There might be an option which specify the behavior.
| -
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CSS
Notes:
CSS3 has modular architecture. The modules define css syntax-grammar, css properies, behavior rules etc. Only very few modules are in stable state, the rest is still under development. It is unlikely then we'll be able to implement support for all the currently proposed modules. The modules needs to be sorted according to their priority and the support added accordingly.
| Priority
| Feature
| Description
| Issues
| Milestone
| State
|
| P1
| CSS3 Parser
| Use a new css 3 level parser or update the existing generated JavaCC grammar of the existing one. Update existing features to operate on the modified parse tree
| -
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|
| P1
| update the parser so it's possible to parse proprietary MS syntax
| Currently the MS syntax extension is only somehow workarounded in the grammar.
| 110333
|
|
| P1
| update the parser so it's possible to parse proprietary MS syntax
| Currently the MS syntax extension is only somehow workarounded in the grammar.
| 110333
|
|
| P1
| update properties code completion for the latest modules state.
| -
| -
|
|
|
| P3
| browsers custom properties support (_ or - prefixed property)
| completion for the properties and values, possibly error checking
| -
|
|
| P3
| modular architecture for the CSS support
| It would be nice to be able to plug-in a new css module support via AU. This involves creation of an API/SPI in the css editor module so additional modules can add/adapt features like completion, error checking, semantic highlighting, refactoring etc. The existing support needs to be migrated to those APIs as well.
| -
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|
| P3
| target browser
| visually reflect (completion, sem. highlighting) what modules are implemented in what browser - set a target browser per project.
| -
|
|
| P3
| semantic highlighting
| unused elements, overridden elements...
| -
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|
| P3
| navigator improvements
| filtering - classes, ids, html elements; sorting
| -
|
|
An approximate list of what needs to be done per module:
CSS Selectors
- grammar changes, syntax changes - new combinator and operator
CSS Color
- propery values changes
CSS Namespaces
- grammar, syntax changes
- code completion namespace aware
- semantic highlighting for selectors w/ a namespace
CSS Backgrounds & Borders
- property values changes
CSS Multi-column Layout
- properites
CSS Media Queries
- completion for media types in @media element and in html link-media attribute
CSS Basic User Interface
- new pseudo classes
CSS Grid Positioning
- grid references code completion
In most of the modules below it's important to update the completion/error checking to the proper properties and their values:
CSS Marquee
CSS Ruby
CSS Style Attributes
CSS Paged Media
CSS Text
CSS Writing Modes
CSS Generated Content for Paged Media
CSS Fonts
CSS Basic Box Model
CSS Template Layout
CSS Speech
CSS Flexible Box Layout
CSS Image Values & Replaced Content
CSS 2D Transformations
CSS 3D Transformations
CSS Transitions
CSS Animations
