Platform/2012-Q2-Goals

GFX

• [ON TRACK] complete and ship OMTC for native fennec
• [ON TRACK] B2G work?
• [ON TRACK] Moving other pieces of work off the main thread
• [ON TRACK] Gaming?
• [ON TRACK] Azure resurrection
• [ON TRACK] Skia
• Other important Q2 work
  • Imagelib improvements
  • BugKill
  • Increase number of regular contributors

DOM

• [ON TRACK] New DOM bindings in place for CanvasContext and CSS2Properties
• [ON TRACK] Native BrowserID API implementation
• [ON TRACK] HTML5 menu implementation, or something like it
• [ON TRACK] Prevent, to a reasonable extent, background tabs from starving the main thread
• [ON TRACK] Reduce CC traversing/unlinking pauses significantly in those cases there are actually cycles to collect (split traverse/unlink to smaller pieces or something)
• [ON TRACK] WebSocket support in workers
• [ON TRACK] EventSource support in workers
• [ON TRACK] Review Shadow DOM and decide what to do with it and the rest of the Webcomponents proposal.

WebAPI

• [ON TRACK] Security model
• [ON TRACK] Device Storage API
• [ON TRACK] Idle API
• [ON TRACK] Unprefix IndexedDB
• [ON TRACK] Screen Orientation
• [ON TRACK] Appcache (depends on how much help we'll get on IndexedDB)
• [ON TRACK] Spec API for WebTelephony conferance calls (not implemented)
• [ON TRACK] Support B2G going multiprocess
• [ON TRACK] Proximity/AmbientLight Sensors
• [ON TRACK] B2G WebActivities spec (not implemented) (WebActivities, effectively same as WebIntents)
• [ON TRACK] String encoding/decoding

Networking

• [ON TRACK] 723577, 723582, 722033, 722034: Resolve listed high priority cache locking/async issues.
  • Nick Hurley and Michal Novotny will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 737470: Implement and land SPDY v3.
  • Patrick McManus will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 735242 Fix bug in which Firefox can display conflicting network states.
  • Patrick McManus will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Get Stone Ridge testing up and running. Should be running at least one test daily against multiple NeckoNet profiles and reporting results publicly.
  • Nick Hurley will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Be able to show working demo of HTML5 video consumption via DASH, even if whole specification is not implemented.
  • Steve Workman will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Improve WebSockets support.
  • 704447: Improve large blob support for WebSockets.
  • 713023, 713026: Improve support for Websockets when using HTTP proxy server.
  • 695636, 711793, 712191: Various other WebSockets fixes.
  • Jason Duell will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Get automated NSS tests related to Firefox ready for deployment to Mozilla test infrastructure on tier-1 platforms.
  • Brian Smith 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.
  • Brian Smith will lead this effort.