Firefox/Planning/2012-04-25

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Warp Core
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

These notes are read by people who weren't able to attend the meeting. Please make sure to include links and context so they can be understood.

Actions from Last Week

• kbrosnan/cheng to follow up on acrobat mac bustage (does it impact FF12? Are we sure it's adobe-side? Do they know?)

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

No verbal update today - please see notes

Release (1.6 -> Firefox 11, 12)

• All running well

Stabilization (1.7 -> Firefox 12, 13)

• Released 1.7b2 yesterday - Please help test it!
• On track to release 15 May 2012

Development (1.8 -> Firefox 13, 14)

• On track to merge to Stabilization 15 May 2012

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Adobe

• Adobe launched http://html.adobe.com/, a single portal that aggregates all the company's efforts to support HTML5
• The Wall Street Journal published an interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen that talks about how the company is "pivoting" to a subscription business model that targets marketers

Apple

• Apple released Safari 5.2 Update 3 to developers. This release features SVG filters, HTML Assets, CSS Filters, the Web Audio API and an improved Web Inspector.

Google

• Google finally released Google Drive, a cloud file storage system. It now serves as the storage interface for the Google App Suite. A REST-based API now allows web application developers to integrate their products with it, and there is now a special section in the Chrome Web Store for it
• Chrome's "Cloud Print" functionality now allows you to print at any FedEx Office location in the U.S., and also allows you to PDF "print" documents directly to a Chrome for Android browser.
• <datalist> support just landed on Chrome Canary
• Google also dramatically raised the bounties it pays for independent researchers for reporting security bugs, raising the maximum amount to $20,000 from $3,133.70
• The long-anticipated trial for Oracle's lawsuit against Google got underway in San Francisco. At the core of the dispute is the question as to whether APIs, apart from source code, are copyrightable.
• CSS Scoped Styles also landed in Chrome Canary
• Google's Ben Goodger posted a clear description of the difference between Aura, a hardware-accelerated UI framework, and Ash, the new ChromeOS window manager. From the description it's clear that some elements of Aura are planned for deployment to other platforms.

Microsoft

• Microsoft confirmed that the Windows 8 Release Preview will be coming out in the first week of June
• Facebook signed an agreement with Microsoft to purchase and cross-license 550 former AOL patents and patent applications. Analysts mused that Facebook purchased the assets in order to better justify moves into different markets after its upcoming initial public offering.

Opera

• Opera, on a quest to deploy the "first true hardware accelerated browser", described how current Opera 12 snapshots are showing improved DirectX hardware acceleration, rather than OpenGL, and will be making it opt-in.
• Also in Opera 12, two Add-on platforms will be removed: Opera Unite and Opera Widgets, as well as support for speech recognition, text-to-speech and VoiceXML.
• Opera also released a special version of 11.63 for the Mac App store.

Other

• Majd Taby has posted a detailed overview of all the features in the WebKit Inspector and how they can be best used in mobile application development.
• Long Tail Video posted a summary of HTML5 video support across all the major browsers. Support for key features like tag attributes is nearing ubiquity but support for fullscreen and adaptive streaming is lagging