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 HTMLElement.
• [ON TRACK] new binding for HTMLDocument
• [ON TRACK] new bindings for 10 HTML element classes
• [ON TRACK] make calling new binding callbacks easy and safe

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 790338]
• [CARRY OVER] Generational GC: get automated safety checks running and green
• [ON TRACK] Manage memory by zones (to reduce memory usage) [bug 759585]
• [CARRY OVER] Finish properties/elements split

Accessibility

• [ON TRACK] FF OS for users who are blind (land accessfu + TTS on trunk pref'ed on).
• [ON TRACK] AccessFu/jsat test coverage.
• [ON TRACK] Initial UIA implementation (Narrator support).

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.
• [ON TRACK] Support shipping ARMv6
• [ON TRACK] Ship H.264 on ICS & JB [bug 787227]
• [ON TRACK] Implement support for H.264 on GB on trunk [bug 787228]
• [ON TRACK] Investigate support for Java addons [bug 799631]
• [ON TRACK] Determine if we can be competitive with the stock browser on 256Mb devices [bug 792131]
• [ON TRACK] Ship safe browsing to Beta
• [ON TRACK] Support shipping fonts in the APK in Beta
• [ON TRACK] Support shipping to an alternative app store with improved updater
• [ON TRACK] Make full screen video experience pleasant for the user (blocked by bug 786893)

Dependencies

• QA for shipping ARMv6
• Media team for H.264 support