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+[[!meta title="Development Plan"]]
+[[!meta author="Chris"]]
+[[!meta date="2014-05-11T18:53:19Z"]]
+
+
+[[!toc]] This is a planning
+document covering NetSurf development and release goals.
+
+General
+-------
+
+Historical NetSurf 2 and before
+-------------------------------
+
+These editions are now completely obsolete and upgrading is recommended.
+
+The SVN revision control system and RISC OS only autobuilder were used
+to provide rudimentary CI.
+
+Releases were principally manual in nature and were oriented around
+stability and incremental improvements.
+
+Development concentrated on expanding functionality in a progression
+towards important core functionality.
+
+Major completed milestones in the 2.x series were:
+
+-   The Hubbub parse library and integrating into NetSurf
+-   The LibCSS CSS library and integation into NetSurf
+
+NetSurf 3
+---------
+
+This is the current release series where development is concentrated.
+
+We use git for our [control
+system](http://git.netsurf-browser.org|source) and have a full multi
+platform [Integration](http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/|Continuous)
+system.
+
+### Improvements in 3.0
+
+The first release in the 3 series had several important technical
+improvements the main ones were:
+
+-   LibDOM Document Object Model library completed and integrated with
+    NetSurf
+-   Libraries using the core buildsystem
+-   Script support including Spidermonkey javascript interpreter and
+    basic DOM bindings
+-   Integrated frame support
+-   Integrated core treeview allowing for all frontends to benefit from
+    global history, bookmarks, cookie management
+
+### The 3 series development overview
+
+The focus of this series will be on:
+
+-   improving speed and memory efficiency
+-   improvement of user interaction, e.g. with form widgets
+-   treeview improvements.
+-   Improve url database handling
+-   Improve coockie handling
+-   Improving DOM integration
+-   No major improvements are planned for the layout engine until
+    NetSurf 4.0.
+-   APNGs are already used in the wild (unlike MNG). While we can
+    display the first frame, thanks to PNG backwards compatibility, it
+    would be good to support the animation extension.
+-   We have always put XHTML though an HTML parser, which works well
+    enough currently, but it will be good to handle XHTML properly.
+
+### Active 3 release
+
+We maintain a page for the forthcoming release listing specific issues
+for that release.
+
+Next release will be [[NetSurf_3.2|netsurf_3.2]]
+
+Netsurf 4
+---------
+
+The focus of this release will be a
+[[new layout engine|layout]]. The new layout engine
+will enable dynamic changes to pages such as `:hover`, reflowing for
+scrollbar insertion.
+
+It will also add support for features missing from the old layout engine
+such as `z-index` and `vertical-align`.
+
+Javascript DOM integration should be completed and use the dynamic
+layout capabilities.
+
+### Core features
+
+-   [[New layout engine|layout]], capable of dynamic
+    changes
+