Platform/Features/NPAPIAsyncDrawing

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Status

NPAPI AsyncDrawing specification and implementation
Stage	Development
Status	In progress
Release target	Firefox 9
Health	OK
Status note	being actively worked

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Team

Product manager	`
Directly Responsible Individual	Bas Schouten/Josh Aas
Lead engineer	Bas Schouten
Security lead	Curtis Koenig
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	Virgil Dicu
UX lead	`
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

This feature allows plugins to asynchronously draw to surfaces. These surfaces may be located in video memory, and so this allows hardware accelerated plugin drawing.

2. Users & use cases

Goals

• Make it possible for plugins to draw, explicitly asynchronously, to a bitmap/software surface.
• Make it possible for plugins to draw, explicitly asynchronously, to a hardware accelerated surface - DXGI or DirectX 9Ex.

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

• Needs testing with a version of Flash that implements the specification.
• Needs a design and implementation security review.

Non-goals

• Non-Windows implementations or specifications for accelerated drawing.

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

• NPAPI:AsyncDrawing

6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

• Security Discussion/Review

Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

• Patch still being developed
• Not sure if it's gonna make Fx 6 (team was contacted)

Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

The specification was designed by Bas Schouten and Josh Aas, with input from Robert O'Callahan. The Windows implementation is being done by Bas Schouten.

• bug 651192 Implement new AsyncDrawing model for plugins

Next Steps

• Complete the implementation of the specification.
• Get a build of Flash that implements this specification.
• Get the specification ratified by the plugin-futures group.

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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• Make it possible for plugins to draw, explicitly asynchronously, to a bitmap/software surface.
• Make it possible for plugins to draw, explicitly asynchronously, to a hardware accelerated surface - DXGI or DirectX 9Ex.

|Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=* Needs testing with a version of Flash that implements the specification.

• Needs a design and implementation security review.

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• Not sure if it's gonna make Fx 6 (team was contacted)

|Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=The specification was designed by Bas Schouten and Josh Aas, with input from Robert O'Callahan. The Windows implementation is being done by Bas Schouten.

• bug 651192 Implement new AsyncDrawing model for plugins

Next Steps

• Complete the implementation of the specification.
• Get a build of Flash that implements this specification.
• Get the specification ratified by the plugin-futures group.

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	Gecko
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Platform
Project	`
Engineering team	Plugins

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Team status notes

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Accessibility	`	`
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