Platform/2012-Q4-Goals

GFX

• [ON TRACK] Prototype GPU acceleration for Azure/Skia canvas on mobile
• [ON TRACK] Prototype GPU acceleration for Azure/Skia canvas on Windows
  • Determine if this is possible on Windows XP due to context loss etc
• [ON TRACK] Have a clean, dependable, extensible, all-platform, free-of-adverse-cache-effects driver blacklisting solution.
• [ON TRACK] Enable Azure for content everywhere
• [ON TRACK] OMTC implemented, landed and turned on for Metro product beta
• [ON TRACK] Turn on GL layers on Linux
• Other important Q4 work
  • OMTC on Direct3D 9, OpenGL on Desktop, basic layers
  • WebGL test suite compliance
  • CSS font spec work
  • Convert drawing code to Azure
  • Other B2G and mobile work as necessary

DOM

• [ON TRACK] Make new DOM bindings codegen generate stub class for implementers (in a text file or what not).
• [CARRY OVER] New DOM bindings for a HTML Element.

WebAPI

• [CARRY OVER] Temporary storage for IndexedDB (bug 785884)
• [CARRY OVER] Implement unified offline storage quota system, putting IndexedDB and localStorage under this quota system (bug 767944)
• [ON TRACK] Assist with reducing memory usage and increasing performance of B2G (bug 797189)
• [ON TRACK] Make B2G v1 a high quality release

JS

• [CARRY OVER] Incremental sweeping by compartment [bug 780960] - not done but is very close to done.
• [CARRY OVER] Generational GC: get automated safety checks running and green
• [CARRY OVER] Finish properties/elements split
• [CARRY OVER] ES6: modules [bug 568953]

Networking

• [ON TRACK] Resolve all networking basecamp blockers that are marked as blocking before November 1st.
  • This work will be done primarily by Jason Duell, Honza Bambas, and Brian Smith.
• [ON TRACK] 713933 Enable TLS false start for NPN/SPDY in mozilla-central.
  • Patrick McManus will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Remove all potentially blocking disk cache API usage in nsHTTPChannel and nsWYCIWYGChannel, on mozilla-central.
  • Nick Hurley and Michal Novotny will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 702122: Have full adaptive DASH for WebM video enabled by default on Aurora.
  • Steve Workman will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Resolve all networking security bugs that received a designation of sg:moderate or higher more than six weeks ago. This is a permanent goal for the group.

Mobile

• [ON TRACK] Resolve all mobile security bugs that received a designation of sg:moderate or higher more than six weeks ago. This is a permanent goal for the group.