Firefox 3.6 Details for Developers

An official Firefox 3.6 for developers article appeared on the Mozilla Developer Center official site, which describes innovations and changes in the upcoming version of Firefox 3.6. Of particular interest are the changes in working with the DOM:

• a reorder message is sent to frames when their documents are loaded;
• The getBoxObjectFor () method was excluded as non-standard and non-standard functionality that introduces to the web;
• added hashchange event! Following Internet Explorer 8, Firefox also receives support for the new event from the HTML 5 draft. I described it in more detail in this article ;
• Support for geolocation addresses has been added, which will provide location information in a convenient form:
  
  
  
  a.address.streetNumber

a.address.street

a.address.premises

a.address.city

a.address.county

a.address.region

a.address.county

a.address.countryCode

a.address.postalCode
  
  
  
  where a is the object that returned the geolocation API.

The changes are not very significant yet, but along with other changes in XUL, such as the ability to hide the menu bar automatically, a separate minor release pulls.