An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool and with contributions from many people in the industry, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas, such as security, Comet, multimedia, CSS, interactivity, and performance. The goal is to inform the browser vendors about what the Ajax developer community feels are most important for the next round of browsers (i.e., FF4, IE9, Safari4, and Opera10) and to provide supplemental details relative to the feature requests.
The current feature request list is:
Security features
- Better Security for Cross-site Scripts
- Stronger Cross-site Request Forgery Protection
- Better IFrames Better Sandboxing
- Native JSON Parsing
Client-server communications features
- "The Two HTTP Connection Limit" Issue
- "Persistent Connections" Issue
- XHR Connection Length Advice
- Synchronous XHR Enhancements
HTML5/W3C features
- 2D Drawing/Vector Graphics
- Video and Audio
- Offline Support
- Mutation Events
- XPath Support
- Component Model XBL HTC
CSS features
Rendering/interaction/event handling features
- Better Support for Rich Text Editing
- Better APIs about positioning and styling
- Better UI Layout Support
- IE 6 and IE 7: "overflow: auto" problem
- Event Transparency API
- Event notification for "content overflow"
- Drag Drop Copy Paste
- Override Back Button Event
- Browser "Unresponsive Mode" Enhancements
- Enhanced support for dialogs
Performance features
- "Array" Operation Performance In All Browsers
- HTML DOM Operation Performance In General
- Matching Element Against CSS Selector
JavaScript features
- IE: Array's Can't Be Usefully Sub-classed
- JavaScript Coroutine Support (was Pause Release)
- Threading Support
Other features
- Hashes for DOM elements and associated API
- Ajax toolkit caching
- Animation of web page content
- Better testing support
- CSS Object Model
OpenAjax Alliance is calling for everyone to vote for his/her favorite features. As befits an AJAX organization, voting is done using AJAX callbacks so that the votes are recorded asynchronously in the background:
- Register an account for yourself at OpenAjax wiki home page;
- Cast your vote at Phase II Voting Page;
The alliance also strongly encourages people to comment on the wiki pages for each of the existing features and to add any important new features that are not yet on the list.
This voting is open to anyone, including OpenAjax Alliance members and non-members.