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'''Mozilla 2 Meeting Details'''
* Wednesdays - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC
* Mozilla Building S - &lt;script&gt; conference room
* 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
* 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
* irc.mozilla.org #mmgc for backchannel

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== Open Action Items ==

== Updates ==

* ActionMonkey status: [[JavaScript:ActionMonkey]]
** bsmedberg is generating builds for comparative perftests... this got lost, will have it today
* XPCOMGC status - [[XPCOMGC]]
** I have a tree that runs xpcshell successfully (all the way to quit)... now I'm working on cornering mark bugs with gczeal and then going to start on running the xpcshell unit tests
* Exception rewrite
** Trying to rewrite XPCOM. [http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/12/11/switching-to-exceptions-makes-head-spin/ Progress]

== Followups ==

* bsmedberg: XPCOMGC should be running correctly much sooner than April, but estimate is still April for perf-parity.

* jonas: mmGC will cause issues because many of our classes do lots of work in destructors, which we can't do with mmgc

* taras has started working on static rewriting for exception code

* mmGC vs exceptions (priorities, merge conflicts, etc) - both in Moz2 or mmGC only?

== Additional Work List ==

* XBL2
* Compositor work
** Widget cleanup/changes
** Plugin interface cleanups
* Layout
** Changes to frame construction
** Changes to frame continuation model (roc's plan)
** Changes to inline reflow
** XUL Box Model in CSS
** Longstanding web layout/style bugs
** dbaron has a bucket of little things
* CSS
** Specifying OpenType features
** Downloadable fonts
** CSS3 Pieces
*** CSS3 Selectors
*** CSS3 Media Queries
*** CSS3 Values ("calc()")
** Vertical text (probably post mozilla 2!)
** CSS animation type stuff
* Threading
** Image decoding
** HTML parsing (everything up to content sink)
** sqlite access
** need to teach xpcom thread-safety things to allow you to move control of an object from thread to thread, without actually making the object thread-safe
* HTML5 Parser?
** jst skeptical
** jonas says moving HTML parsing to a separate thread will be a lot of work in the parser, so we may as well switch to a different parser at the same time
** jst ''still'' skeptical
* Hardware gfx acceleration
* SVG
** SVG Animation
** SVG Fonts
* Web Forms 2
* Audio/Video
* Figure what to do with XUL
** Have access to more newer platform-like features (stuff in menus, etc.)
* DNSsec?
** Domain certs from DNS
** Default protocol records
** etc.
* DOM support for web 2.0
** Preserving state of DOM and JS Context across retarts
** Dragging tabs between windows
* Avoid restart for various operations (extension, themes, etc.)

== Dependency list ==

* retval pointers requires xpcomgc
* retval pointers requires exceptions
** brendan claims that retval can be done without exceptions
** others skeptical
* exceptions require xpcomgc
* xpcomgc requires mmgc

== Round Table ==

* XBL2!?