WebAPI/2012-09-25

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WebAPI Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2012-09-25 - 10:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98413
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• WebAPI Vidyo Room / SF-Golden Gate (3rd floor) / Toronto-Spadina
• Join irc.mozilla.org #webapi for back channel

Notes will be taken on etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes

• Jonas
  • B2G scheduling meetings
  • next date is totes for realz, yo
  • unsure what actual date is, yet
  • security model work is almost complete
• Bonnie
  • Working on bug 792952 B2G wifi scanning.
  • Patch for JS side of bug 792952 uploaded and currently being reviewed.
  • Working on the C++ patch for 792952.
• Mounir
  • all assigned P1/feature blockers complete
  • localstorage/cookies removal when uninstalling an app
• Andrea
  • 792471 accessing properties in window.navigator crashes browser - done
  • 793310 Support sms:, tel: and mailto: URI schemes - working on it right now
  • 793311 crash in nsDOMFileFile::nsDOMFileFile - done
  • 794102 isInstalled should return an app object - waiting for review
  • 703612 Make DBUS calls asynchronous to prevent slowness because of DBus daemon being overloaded in Battery API UPower backend - waiting for review - no priority - done just for fun
  • 761479 XMLHttpRequest with mozAnon=true should still send explicitly passed username + password - landed
  • 779982 Change behaviour of getSelf and add amInstalled function - done
• Ben
  • working on clear private data
    • Can now tell which app a msg is coming from in JS
    • => when we get 'clear private data" messages from an app, we'll now know which app's data to clear
  • should be finished with clearing IDB private data today
• Doug
  • added 'apps' device type to device storage
  • working through some of the issues of device storage usages
  • next going to implement the proper security/prompting in device storage
  • need a way to test
  • Geolocation accuracy on the otoro is bad.
  • dclarke will create a wiki page with best practices for testing permissions and send to list
• David Clarke
  • with Martijn, writing lots of tests for vibration, power, settings, device storage (+1)
• Rob
  • Added first set of WebSMS tests (Bug 792495)
  • Added more WebTelephony tests (Bug 792494)
  • Working on more WebSMS tests
• Geo
  • Putting together mochitest suite from recent sprint. Have ~10 WebAPI areas accounted for. Will work with overholt this week to arrange review.
  • Perms: conversation last week with sicking, ddahl, and lucas gave us more info about how the APIs work with the permissions manager. Reworking approach a bit to account for this. Have some basic code to test allow/deny perms, need to account for prompt and "undefined."
• Concentrating on vetting current WebAPI tests on Thurs/Fri, working off previously discussed priority list.
• Round table / open discussion
  • no news about upcoming B2G work week
  • please update permissions matrix [1] and address questions [2]
    • [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Akyz_Bqjgf5pdHNlbDBDUGMzUzJSdFYyNEZjcngtUWc
    • [2] https://etherpad.mozilla.org/permissionmatrixupdates
  • TPAC
    • sicking, mounir, maybe smaug?, maybe Henri
    • dougt would like Mozillians to represent at a few meetings (DAP, etc.)