Platform/2011-Q4-Goals: Difference between revisions

* {{ok|Thebes wrapper for Azure}}

* {{ok|Skia backend for Azure}}

** Finish cross-process Linux OpenGL layers implementation (on desktop)

** [done] Multiple GPU support on Mac OS X

*** [done] Anti-aliasing

*** ARB_robustness / EGL_LOST_CONTEXT

* {{ok|Complete Mobile Readability project (Phase 1 & make decision on Phase 2)}}

** part 1 [http://dbaron.org/log/20111126-font-inflation landed] but still needs tuning based on feedback and also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703029 UI]

* {{ok|Diagnostic tools for text and font memory usage in about:memory}}

* {{ok|Graphite Font Layout system}}

** Code is implemented and will land pref'd off

* {{risk|Complete SVG migration to DisplayList (Performance)}}

* {{risk|Implement CSS spec for flex-box}}

** CSS flexbox spec is still in working draft. New ETA for this feature: Q1 2012

* {{ok|Selection bit - Move from Layout to Content - Mutation events update DOM (619273)}}

* {{ok|Complete View class removal (bug 337801)}}

** part 1 (View removal from Decks/XUL) done. (bug 655263)

* {{risk|Page Break Support}}

* {{risk|CSS Ruby on mozilla-central}}

* {{ok|MediaStream infrastructure landed on mozilla-central with Worker-based processing enabled and some media element integration}}

* {{ok|libcubeb sound library replacing libsydneyaudio on mozilla-central}}

* {{ok|fullscreen API enabled on mozilla-central}}

* {{ok|direct pushing of video frames to compositor thread for e10s}}

* {{ok|eliminate unnecessary copy with video decoder API changes}}

* {{ok|Close the gap between what can be expressed in WebIDL and what our IDL tooling supports}}

* {{miss|JS Compartment per global (carryover from last quarter, this may not be hittable due to timing of blocking bugs)}} -- <i>missed due to timing of blocking bugs</i>

* {{miss|Have a real plan for what the new DOM bindings will look like}} -- <i>at risk due to resource availability.</i>

* {{ok|Add support for the new mutation observer proposal (to replace DOM Mutation Event support eventually)}}

* {{ok|Add support for (callable) event constructors}}

* {{ok|SMS landed. Might not have security model in place. Turned on for B2G}}

* {{ok|IndexedDB fully up to spec (including version API change, delete database, and arrays as keys, the last of which might be a stretch)}}

* {{risk|Have spec for how capability management in apps will work}}

* {{ok|Battery and Network API on android and one other platform}}

* {{ok|Contacts API spec (spec proposal only, no implementation)}}

*{{ok|Land incremental GC.}}

*{{ok|Land Harmony modules.}}

*{{ok|Land support for JS profiler.}}

*{{ok|Shrink JSObject to ~5 words.}}

* {{risk| Canvas accessibility: build accessible subtree.}}

* {{risk| Improve accessible tree updating [{{bug|690417}}]}}

* Other activities: Addtional Telemetry, B2G test framework collab.

* Continue regular tracking and resolution of [[Electrolysis/Short-Term Goals|short-term goals]]

* Remove the need for the --enable-e10s-compat build flag, so users can simply set a pref in Firefox to get multi-process tabs. Note that some or many features still may not work this quarter.

* Get windowless and windowed plugins working on all platforms.

* Identify which addons must continue to work to get 80% of users multi-process tabs

* Develop a plan for addon compatibility with content processes. (This may involve a combination of Firefox compatibility shims, porting addons to the Jetpack SDK, manual rewriting, or automatic rewriting).

* Measure the memory usage of multiple content processes and identify wasted space and a plan to correct any issues.

* Identify remaining issues which need input from the UX team for mobile and desktop, including panning responsiveness/checkerboarding tradeoffs (primarily mobile) and misbehaving/crashing content UI (desktop)

* {{risk|Valgrind developer ROM for pandaboard or Nexus S}}

* {{risk|linux "perf"-counters in zippity(depends on above ROM to have perf support in kernel)}}

* {{ok|Bug 662444: exit(0) "immediate" shutdown prototype and a plan to land it}}

* {{ok|Bug 686805: Incremental decompression for libxul on Android}}

* {{ok|Startup-ordered binary on Windows}}

* {{missed|Resolve all networking security bugs that received a designation of sg:moderate or higher more than six weeks ago. This will become a permanent goal for the group.}}