Milestones

0.1 Alpha (June 2025)

Initial crates.io release representing 18 months of work.

• Support for calc() values in CSS styles.
• object-fit and object-position properties.
• background-size, background-position, and background-repeat properties.
• Move DOM updating logic into blitz-dom
• Event handling refactor
• WGPU texture rendering (<canvas> support)
• Grid layout: named lines and areas

0.2 Alpha (Oct 2025)

• Incremental box tree construction (and other performance improvements)
• CSS Animations and Transitions
• WGPU 26
• Run WPT tests on every PR

0.3 Alpha (Estimated Mar/Apr/May 2026)

• Support for non-local z-index
• Floats (Implements CSS Floats (float and clear properties) #265)
• Nested documents (enables: browser UI, iframes)
• border-collapse: collapse
• Initial imperative DOM access (Dioxus onmounted)
• Text selection (desktop platforms)
• Multi-window support
• Picture elements
• Winit 0.31 upgrade
• Merge with Dioxus Desktop
• Mobile (Android/iOS) support #323
• Events
  • Mouse events (dblclick, auxclick, mouseover, mouseout, mousenter, mouseleave)
  • Scroll events (scroll, wheel)
  • Focus events (focus, blur, focusin, focusout)
  • Pointer events
  • Touch events
  • Drag & Drop
  • Clipboard?
  • Composition / IME?

0.4 Beta

• Delay rendering until key assets have loaded (Fix FOUC)
• Devtools
  • DOM tree
  • Layout
  • Computed style
  • Specified style view/edit
• Widgets
  • Custom elements / Shadow DOM
  • Custom Widgets
  • select / drop down
  • Password input
• Low-level DOM access
  • RcDocument
  • Ref-counted node handles?
  • Read data from dirty document (requiring extra resolves)?
  • Custom event handlers?
  • Abstraction?
• Accessibility
  • Richer accessibility tree
  • Text layout / text input
  • Handling accessibility events
• Test automation
  • Webdriver? Playright?
• Renderer
  • Text: vertical-align / white-space / text-overflow
  • Position: static/fixed/sticky?
  • Rasterize: clip-path/mask
• Programmatic scrolling
• CJK fonts on Apple platforms?
• Font embolden?

Backlog

The backlog is tracked in individual issues for each area of the engine:

• Tracking: Rendering #238
• Tracking: Layout and Text #256
• Tracking: Optimizations #255
• Tracking: Event handling #257
• Tracking: Form controls #258
• Tracking: Images and media (excl. SVG) #259
• Tracking: SVG support #260
• Tracking: Devtools & Automation #261
• Tracking: Accessibility #262
• Tracking: Architecture #263
• Tracking: Networking #273

DOM

• <title>
• <meta> refresh
• Details/Summary
• Popover API
• <template> elements
• Shadow DOM

Dioxus Native integration

• Integrate with CLI
• Better event handling (prevent default, generated events)
• Low-level access to DOM

HTML/Markdown renderer ("readme")

• List bullets rendering
• Checkbox rendering
• Live reload
• Clickable links
• Syntax highlighting
• LaTeX / math rendering
• Packaged/published binaries