Firefox 13 for developers
Firefox 13 was shipped on June 5, 2012. This page summarizes the changes in Firefox 13 that affect developers.
Changes for Web developers
HTML
- Tables'
cellspacing
attributes are now parsed the same outside quirks mode as they are in quirks mode. That is, if a value is specified as a percentage, it's treated as a number of pixels instead, since percentage values are not actually permitted according to the specification. - The
<wbr>
element has seen its bidirectional behavior fixed. It now behaves like the UnicodeU+200B ZERO-WIDTH SPACE
and therefore doesn't affect bi-directionality of its parent element anymore. - The
:invalid
pseudo-class can now be applied to the<form>
element.
CSS
- The
turn
<angle>
unit is now supported (to be used with CSS functions likerotate()
). - Support for 3-to-4 value syntax of the
background-position
has been added. You can offset a background image from any corner by writing like "right 10px bottom 20px
". See Firefox bug 522607 - Support for the 2-value syntax of the CSS
background-repeat
has been added. - Support for
-moz-border-radius*
and-moz-box-shadow
has been removed. Authors should use unprefixedborder-radius
orbox-shadow
instead. See Firefox bug 693510 - The
column-fill
property has been implemented (prefixed).
JavaScript
DOM
- The
Node.cloneNode()
method'sdeep
argument is now optional, as specified in DOM4. - The
setTimeout()
andsetInterval()
methods no longer pass an additional "lateness" argument to the callback routine. - The
Blob.mozSlice()
method has been unprefixed. - Support for the
Blob
constructor has been added. - Support for
globalStorage
has been removed. - The new
DOMRequest
interface, used for reporting the status and result of background operations, has been added. - The
HTMLOptionElement.index()
method now returns0
instead of the incorrect-1
when the<option>
is inside a<datalist>
HTML element. DOMException
as defined in DOM Level 4 has been implemented.- The
FileError
interface has been removed in favor of theDOMError
interface as defined in the latest FileAPI specification. - The
Range
object no longer throws aRangeException
. Instead aDOMException
as defined in DOM 4 is used. element.getAttributeNS()
now always returnsnull
instead of the empty string for non-existent attributes. Previously, there were cases in which the empty string could be returned. This is in keeping with the DOM4 specification, which now says this should return null for non-existent attributes, instead of an empty string.- The
HTMLCanvasElement
interface now has a non-standardmozFetchAsStream()
method, which provides an input stream containing the element's image data in the specified format.
UA string
- Firefox for Android now has a Tablet or Mobile token in the UA string to indicate the form factor and no longer has the Fennec token. Also, the number after "Gecko/" is now the Gecko version number instead of a frozen date.
- The UA string no longer exposes the Gecko patch number or release status in the version number; that is, the version number is now always of the form "X.Y", where X is the major release number and Y the minor. For example, "13.0" or "14.1". It will no longer be something like "14.0.1b1".
SVG
- The
SVGStringList
DOM interface is now indexable likeArray
(see Firefox bug 722071).
WebGL
- Support has been added for the
EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
extension. Anisotropic texture filtering improves the quality of mipmapped texture access when viewing a textured primitive at an oblique angle.
MathML
- Support for the
width
attribute on<mtable>
elements has been added (Firefox bug 722880). - MathJax fonts are now used as the default fonts for mathematical text. See Fonts for Mozilla's MathML engine for more information.
Network
- The SPDY protocol now enabled by default.
Developer tools
3D view improvements
- You can now press the "f" key to make sure the currently selected node is visible.
Style panel improvements
- Clicking the heading for any rule in the style panel now opens the Style Editor at the corresponding CSS.
- Right-clicking on a rule in the style panel now offers an option to copy the rule to the clipboard.
- Entering an unknown property name, or an illegal property value, displays a warning icon next to that property.
Scratchpad improvements
- The Scratchpad now has an option in the Help menu to take you to the MDN documentation about Scratchpad.
Changes for Mozilla and add-on developers
Compatibility note
Starting in Firefox 13, Firefox for Windows requires at least Windows XP Service Pack 2; it will no longer run on Windows 2000 or earlier versions of Windows XP.
JavaScript code modules
source-editor.jsm
- Support for a dirty flag has been added to the Source Editor API.
- The Source Editor no longer supports falling back to a
<textarea>
instead of using Orion. - The editor now exposes focus and blur events.
- The
getIndentationString()
method has been added; this returns the string to use for indenting text in the editor. - The Source Editor now supports managing a list of breakpoints and displaying user interface for toggling them on and off; it does not actually implement breakpoints, however. That's up to you to write debugger code for.
- Support has been added for highlighting the current line, using the
highlightCurrentLine
configuration option.
ARIA
- The CSS properties
margin-left
,margin-right
,margin-top
,margin-bottom
are now all reflected into ARIA object attributes with the same name. See Gecko object attributes for more information.
Interfaces
- The
nsIScreen
interface now supports controlling rotation through the newrotation
attribute. - The
nsIPrefBranch2
interface has been merged intonsIPrefBranch
(Firefox bug 718255). - The new message manager wake-up service, implemented by
nsIMessageWakeupService
, has been implemented. See Firefox bug 591052. - The aliases
MozOpacity
,MozOutline
,MozOutlineStyle
,MozOutlineWidth
,MozOutlineOffset
, andMozOutlineColor
, all of which were removed in previous versions of Gecko, have been removed fromnsIDOMCSS2Properties
, which should have been done with the aliases were initially removed. - The
nsINavHistoryQueryOptions
attributeexcludeItemIfParentHasAnnotation
has been removed, along with the corresponding query operation. It existed to support livemarks, which no longer exist.
See also
- Firefox 12 for developers
- Firefox 11 for developers
- Firefox 10 for developers
- Firefox 9 for developers
- Firefox 8 for developers
- Firefox 7 for developers
- Firefox 6 for developers
- Firefox 5 for developers
- Firefox 4 for developers
- Firefox 3.6 for developers
- Firefox 3.5 for developers
- Firefox 3 for developers
- Firefox 2 for developers
- Firefox 1.5 for developers