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<title>Layout Detailed Design Template</title>
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<meta name="author" content="Marc Attinasi (attinasi@netscape.com)">
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<h1><font color="#cc0000">Gecko Layout Detailed Design Document Template</font></h1>
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[Use this template to start your detailed design. Replace items in square
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brackets with the appropriate text for your component, class or system. Keep
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in mind that this is just a general template intended for most designs.
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Your specific design may require different organization or topics - the
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goal is to provide detailed information about the software to the reader.]<br>
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<br>
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<h1>[Component / Class Name] Detailed Design</h1>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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[Introduce the scope of this design document: what is being documented here.
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Provide a reference back to the High Level design(s) that correspond.]<br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">
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<h2>[Class / Component A]</h2>
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[Briefly refresh the reader with the purpose of the class or component.
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Provide enough information to make accessible the following sections on the
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public API, private methods and members, and algorithms. Bring up and tricky
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or otherwise interesting relationships that will be detailed.]<br>
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<br>
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<h3>Public API</h3>
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[Show the public API for the component, as IDL, C++ header file, or as a
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pseudo-code description. If using a source file, the comments in the
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source file should cover most of the detail needed. If they do not, then add
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that detail there. See the Overview document for more details on the
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scope of information that should be presented.]<br>
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<h3>Protected API</h3>
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[If there is a protected API, list the methods and members and indicate
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the responsibilities of the callers with respect o calling the base class,
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enforcing base class invariants, etc.]<br>
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<br>
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<h3>Implementation Notes</h3>
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[The nasty details of the implementation get exposed here. This section
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can be broken down into subsections as necessary, and should include details
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of particularly important algorithms, performance characteristics or constraints,
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memory usage, tricky ownership issues, and anything else that would make understanding
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the implementation easier for the reader.]<br>
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<h4>Algorithms</h4>
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<h5>[Interesting Algorithm 1: The internally maintained sorted list]</h5>
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[explain the nature of the algorithm, the reason it was chosen, the types
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of input it is expected to operate on, etc. Annotated pseudo-code is a good
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idea here, but actual code is often too detailed to b of much use by itself.
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It the actual code is sufficient to understand it, then this subsection is
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probably not needed.]<br>
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<h5>[Interesting Algorithm 2: Handling overflow of the input buffer]</h5>
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[your description here]<br>
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<h4></h4>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">
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<h2>[Class / Component B]</h2>
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[Repeat the structure for the next class or component.]<br>
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<br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">
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<h2>Cross-Component Algorithms</h2>
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[specify the details of algorithms that cross a single component. refer
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to each component, describe the flow of control, the responsibilities of each
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component along the way, the error handling, the state-management if any,
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and the expected results for a given input. Generally each of these algorithms
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gets its own subsection.]<br>
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<h3>[Turning a byte-stream into a fully parsed token-tree]</h3>
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[Detailed description, pesudo-code, state transitions, etc.]<br>
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<h3>[Managing updates to the document]</h3>
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[Detailed description, pesudo-code, state transitions, etc.]<br>
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<br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2">
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<h2>Tech Notes</h2>
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[This section contains links to tech notes related to the implementations
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covered in this design. Tech Notes tend to be extremely specific, often
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recipes for how to do something or how to fix a class of defects. If
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the tech note is more general, it may be a good idea to move it into the Detailed
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design itself.]<br>
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<ul>
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<li>[<a href="link%20to%20tech%20note">Debugging buffer overflows</a>
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]</li>
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<li>[<a href="link%20to%20tech%20note">Adding new element or attribute
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types</a>
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]</li>
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<li>[<a href="link%20to%20tech%20note">How To detect and fix problems
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with the alignment of elements</a>
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]</li>
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<li>[<a href="link%20to%20tech%20note">Fix for Bug 666: ownership of tokens
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was mistakenly transferred</a>
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]</li>
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</ul>
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<br>
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