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| Gaia Web Component Migration || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS ||  || Gaia team members migrating from Building Blocks to web components. Wins, hurdles, lessons learned. Large project web component patterns. Wilson Page is interested, but is slammed right now. We should figure out when those APIs are getting enabled by default (behind a pref right now), and coordinate publishing with that.
| Gaia Web Component Migration || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS ||  || Gaia team members migrating from Building Blocks to web components. Wins, hurdles, lessons learned. Large project web component patterns. Wilson Page is interested, but is slammed right now. We should figure out when those APIs are getting enabled by default (behind a pref right now), and coordinate publishing with that.
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| Payments API || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS, Firefox (soon) ||  || Kumar did an intro, but we need to push on it's story. How have people actually used it? Testimonial stories from devs who've implemented would be dope. (Havi: Actually, there's a series of [https://hacks.mozilla.org/?s=payments payments posts], but not a lot of testimony that we'd want to share widely yet. Next Marketplace news re: payments will be early Feb. Stay tuned)
| Payments API || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS, Firefox (now)||  1133963, 1034326 , 1134481 || Kumar did an intro, but we need to push on it's story. How have people actually used it? Testimonial stories from devs who've implemented would be dope. (Havi: UPDATE: Kumar/AndyM will write about payments and how to do them on mobile, android and desktop using new JS shim/library once bugs are closed. Early March?. Actually, there's a series of [https://hacks.mozilla.org/?s=payments payments posts], but not a lot of testimony that we'd want to share widely yet.)
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| Fetch API Introduction || {{ok|}} || Firefox, Firefox OS, Android || {{bug|1039846}} || Nikhil Marathe agreed to write.
| Fetch API Introduction || {{ok|}} || Firefox, Firefox OS, Android || {{bug|1039846}} || Nikhil Marathe agreed to write.
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| Power-positive Patterns || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS ||  || Dietrich's student project for making it super easy for web developers to access the network in a power-and-network-consumption aware way. Dietrich will write.
| Power-positive Patterns || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS ||  || Dietrich's student project for making it super easy for web developers to access the network in a power-and-network-consumption aware way. Dietrich will write.
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| Firefox Hello || {{ok|}} || WebRTC ||  || Maire Reavy & team (Havi is in touch w/Maire) Mid-Feb.
| Firefox Hello || {{ok|}} || WebRTC ||  || Maire Reavy & team (Havi is in touch w/Maire) Pending /early March.
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| Shumway || {{ok|}} || Moz Research ||  || Michael Bebenita, Chris Peterson & team (Havi is in touch-February)
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| CSS Filters || {{ok|}} || CSS || [https://longsonr.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/new-svgcss-filter-support-in-firefox/ blog post] || As of Fx35, no longer need SVG to do filters. Robert Longson blogged briefly about it (see link to left), but would be good to have a comprehensive post showing off filters without SVG. Should contact Robert, or see if someone who did the MDN content might want to write.
| CSS Filters || {{ok|}} || CSS || [https://longsonr.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/new-svgcss-filter-support-in-firefox/ blog post] || As of Fx35, no longer need SVG to do filters. Robert Longson blogged briefly about it (see link to left), but would be good to have a comprehensive post showing off filters without SVG. Should contact Robert, or see if someone who did the MDN content might want to write.
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| J2ME.js || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS, Android? ||  || Dietrich reached out to Myk Melez, and he's talking with team about topics.
| J2ME.js || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS, Android? ||  || Dietrich reached out to Myk Melez, and he's talking with team about topics. Launch/and publicity delayed till post-MWC per PR.  
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| Croma app || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS ||  || Numix Project's Android app, ported to Firefox OS. It's beautiful. I asked them to write a post about how they ported and implemented. They responded on twitter affirmatively, waiting to hear back on email. They threatened to use disco and cheesiness in their post, which meets our technical requirements and editorial standards.
| Croma app || {{ok|}} || Firefox OS ||  || Numix Project's Android app, ported to Firefox OS. It's beautiful. I asked them to write a post about how they ported and implemented. They responded on twitter affirmatively, waiting to hear back on email. They threatened to use disco and cheesiness in their post, which meets our technical requirements and editorial standards.

Revision as of 21:30, 20 February 2015

The future home of info about the Hacks blog and how you can participate.

Article Idea Status Product Areas Links Notes
RequestSync API [ON TRACK] Firefox OS bug 1018320 No MDN docs yet, shipping in FxOS 2.2 likely. Baku was fine with re-publishing his post on Hacks. Dietrich connected Baku (Andrea M) to Havi. Post on hold until the API is shipping.
Web Bluetooth API v2 [ON TRACK] Firefox OS / IoT bug 1005848, wiki Notable change is Bluetooth LE. Dietrich contacted Ben Tian about it, most of the APIs are privileged (yay!) but not shipping until FxOS v3 (boo). Contacts: Ben Tian, Jocelyn Liu, Shawn Huang, Jamin Liu, Bruce Sun, Will Wang.
Bluetooth Data Channels [ON TRACK] Firefox OS / IoT Article on BT-as-transport-layer for mesh and disconnected msging. Dietrich contacted Ben Tian.
Gallery Scrollview Architecture [ON TRACK] Firefox OS Something iOS/Android do well, but SUPER hard to do well on Web. See Roc's post. Dietrich asked DJF, cc'd Andew Sliwinski. If DJF can't do it, maybe a MoFo article about how WebMaker solved it?
Inter App Communication API [ON TRACK] Firefox OS bug 876397 Used for media-on-lockscreen in Gaia, maybe certified only. Need to figure out priv'd uplift plan. Dietrich will ask Gaia team.
JPM [ON TRACK] Firefox, Android New Jetpack + Node.js tool to replace CFX. Dietrich asked Erik Vold, who's shooting for 2/15. UPDATE: Will likely go out as a series, later Feb/March (Havi)
System Message API [ON TRACK] Firefox OS MDN docs Not sure what the right content or person is.
FxOS Media Remote Controls [ON TRACK] Firefox OS src Dietrich asked Jim Porter and Dominic Kuo.
Presentation API [ON TRACK] Firefox OS, IoT bug 1080474 Device discovery and display! Dietrich asked Gina Yeh and Shih-Chiang Chien, but they say it's not ready to write about yet.
Gaia Web Component Migration [ON TRACK] Firefox OS Gaia team members migrating from Building Blocks to web components. Wins, hurdles, lessons learned. Large project web component patterns. Wilson Page is interested, but is slammed right now. We should figure out when those APIs are getting enabled by default (behind a pref right now), and coordinate publishing with that.
Payments API [ON TRACK] Firefox OS, Firefox (now) 1133963, 1034326 , 1134481 Kumar did an intro, but we need to push on it's story. How have people actually used it? Testimonial stories from devs who've implemented would be dope. (Havi: UPDATE: Kumar/AndyM will write about payments and how to do them on mobile, android and desktop using new JS shim/library once bugs are closed. Early March?. Actually, there's a series of payments posts, but not a lot of testimony that we'd want to share widely yet.)
Fetch API Introduction [ON TRACK] Firefox, Firefox OS, Android bug 1039846 Nikhil Marathe agreed to write.
Service Worker Delta Encoding [ON TRACK] Firefox, Firefox OS, Android Ben Kelly, in progress.
Power-positive Patterns [ON TRACK] Firefox OS Dietrich's student project for making it super easy for web developers to access the network in a power-and-network-consumption aware way. Dietrich will write.
Firefox Hello [ON TRACK] WebRTC Maire Reavy & team (Havi is in touch w/Maire) Pending /early March.
Shumway [ON TRACK] Moz Research Michael Bebenita, Chris Peterson & team (Havi is in touch-February)
Web Animations API [ON TRACK] Firefox, Firefox OS, Android polyfill Dietrich reached out to Rachel Nabors.
RTL in Web Apps [ON TRACK] Firefox, Firefox OS, Android Dietrich reached out to Gaia team implementing RTL in 2.2, have some names, will narrow down.
Mulet [ON TRACK] Firefox OS, DevTools Desktop dev environment for developing Gaia. Dietrich reached out to Ochameau.
Word Prediction for Bengali [ON TRACK] Firefox OS Article about implementing a learning algorithm for languages where a static word list can't be used. Could cover how the keyboard and prediction APIs work, how to implement prediction for a new language, and the challenges of doing so for Bengali. Dietrich will reach out to Rabimba and Tim Chien.
CSS Filters [ON TRACK] CSS blog post As of Fx35, no longer need SVG to do filters. Robert Longson blogged briefly about it (see link to left), but would be good to have a comprehensive post showing off filters without SVG. Should contact Robert, or see if someone who did the MDN content might want to write.
J2ME.js [ON TRACK] Firefox OS, Android? Dietrich reached out to Myk Melez, and he's talking with team about topics. Launch/and publicity delayed till post-MWC per PR.
Croma app [ON TRACK] Firefox OS Numix Project's Android app, ported to Firefox OS. It's beautiful. I asked them to write a post about how they ported and implemented. They responded on twitter affirmatively, waiting to hear back on email. They threatened to use disco and cheesiness in their post, which meets our technical requirements and editorial standards.
FxOS App Startup Performance [ON TRACK] Firefox OS, mobile web Dietrich reached out to Eli Perlman, who's writing tools and best practices for this. He agreed and gave an ETA of sometime Q1.
Gaia apps with WebIDE [ON TRACK] Firefox OS, mobile web in Nightly right now, Sole needs to test this and establish how it works. It would be great to publish it even with a huge "WARNING THIS IS A LANDMINE" sign, so the team gets feedback and the feature is more tested
Web VR [ON TRACK] Firefox Dietrich talked with Josh C. about content ideas, as well as co-publishing (since they have mozvr.com blog). They've got a few content ideas lined up, and I have more, so there's a whole series in the making here. @ncasenmare can tell their dev workflow story, re-ping after GDC is over.

Completed Posts

Article Idea Status Product Areas Links Notes
CSS Counter Style Level 3 [DONE] CSS http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-counter-styles-3/ MDN contributor Saurabh Nair aka jsx, scheduled 2/11
FxOS Web Server [DONE] Firefox OS https://github.com/justindarc/fxos-web-server Justin Darcangelo IRC: justindarc (Havi in touch, scheduled 2/9)
Canvas updates [DONE] Canvas API Florian Scholz from MDN (Havi will contact)
Broadcast Channel API [DONE] Firefox OS bug 966439 Havi: Jweathersby has a draft - week of 2/2
Project Silk [DONE] Firefox OS (and more?) Mason Chang blogged, and reposting to Hacks!
Functional JavaScript [DONE] JavaScript; programming language This is an article post on MozTPE's blog, which introduces the language feature in functional programming flavor, and shows how much nice tricks JavaScript could play with. I've modified and translated it in English, with lots of additional information & links. (Greg Weng) This note left by Greg, Dietrich introduced to Havi to get this rolling.
Node Firefox OS [DONE] Firefox OS Sole: published 2/5
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