Mobile/Notes/29-May-2013

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Schedule

• Next merge: 2013-06-24
• Next release: 2013-06-25

Topics for This Week

Prompt.jsm

Wes landed new code for dealing for prompts in JavaScript. The mailing list has some info but also see bug 875119. We have plans to add more of these kind of JS wrappers. We also plan to add documentation to MDN.

GeckoView

Brad has been working on initial patches for creating a web rendering view based on Gecko. Mailing list has some details (bug 867517). Some early next steps include: Making a JAR for embedders and starting to use GeckoView in Firefox.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

MFinkle

• Stole bug 861164 from Margaret: Use different search URLs for tablet vs. non-tablet
• Adding more 1x1s to my calendar
• Playing hot-potato with WebRT and Marketplace groups
• Finding ways to delay any review on patches from Brad

Feature Focus

Firefox 22

• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovak
• State of good repair:
  • [ON TRACK] ANR Reporter - Not user facing
  • [ON TRACK] Refining Tab UI
  • [ON TRACK] Performance improvements - Including WebGL, texture streaming, async canvas updates

Firefox 23

• [AT RISK] Firefox Health Report
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Turkish
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Hungarian
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic URL bar
• [ON TRACK] NFC bump for tab sharing
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, confirmed: preffed OFF
• [ON TRACK] L10N foundation improvements
• [ON TRACK] UI for changing search engine default
• [ON TRACK] RSS/Atom feed handling
• [ON TRACK] API: Payments
• [ON TRACK] Other toolbar/awesomescreen improvements: Switch to Tab (Awesomescreen shows already open tabs), Domain autocomplete in Awesomescreen, Show URL instead of Title in Toolbar, highlight domain in toolbar when showing URL

Firefox 24

• [ON TRACK] Reader Improvements
• [PLANNED] Packaged apps support
• [PLANNED] Web Audio API
• [PLANNED] API: Push notifications
• [PLANNED] SkiaGL improvements
• [PLANNED] Set Top Box optimization
• [PLANNED] Directional game console navigation
• [PLANNED] Quickshare
• [PROPOSED] Shumway: generic video player
  • Will create new project page with Mobile-specific work to be done when known
• [PROPOSED] bug 850984- Request for set Baidu search engine as default for zh-CN Version of Firefox for Android
• Need someone to take on: bug 861164 - use different search URLs for tablet vs. non-tablet

Firefox 25

• [PROPOSED] Privileged apps support
• [PROPOSED] Shumway - v2 branded players
  • Will create a project page for Mobile-specific work when known
• [PROPOSED] API: Cloud
• [PROPOSED] Solid developer environment
• [PROPOSED] API: Alarm
• [PLANNED] API: Web activities
• [PLANNED] API: Contacts
• [PLANNED] Dynamic Snippets
• [PROPOSED] About:home redesign