Platform/2012-Q3-Goals

GFX

• [ON TRACK] stop using Java screenshotting in Fennec for Android
  • we agree that we want to do this, but we have concerns that the pieces will be there, but we'll still be unable to turn off java screenshotting because of performance problems.
  • alternative: "implement multi-resolution tiles"
• [ON TRACK] complete asynchronous panning and zooming with OMTC for B2G/gonk
• [ON TRACK] Ship OMTC on B2G/gonk for basecamp
• [ON TRACK] Be able to use Skia for canvas drawing on non-accelerated Windows computers
  • gw280 to gather skia software-only performance numbers by Tuesday 3 July to help make a decision
  • carryover - do we care at this point, given the below item?
• [ON TRACK] Be able to use Skia for content drawing on Android
• [ON TRACK] Remove the non-Azure canvas implementation
  • Use the Cairo Azure backend everywhere there isn't a more specific backend
• [ON TRACK] OMTC cross-platform refactor
  • Risky!
  • Not back-outable. No OMTC or "New OMTC" only.
  • Needed so we can enable OMTC everywhere.
• [ON TRACK] Have a clean, dependable, extensible, all-platform, free-of-adverse-cache-effects driver blacklisting solution.
• Other important Q3 work
  • WebGL work. bjacob to fill in what this means.
  • Enable Azure for content everywhere
  • Snappy work
  • Other B2G work as required
  • Moving other pieces of work off the main thread
  • BugKill - ???
  • Increase number of regular contributors

Layout

• [ON TRACK] Readability 2.0
• [ON TRACK] Complete Graphite Fonts Project (bug 631479)
• [ON TRACK] Invalidation via DisplayList Analysis (bug 539356)
• [ON TRACK] CSS Flexbox feature/spec (bug 666041)
• [ON TRACK] Add image visibility API (bug 689623)
• [AT RISK] Continue View class removal (bug 337801)
• [ON TRACK] CSS Vertical Text (bug 145503)
• [ON TRACK] CSS Pagination (bug 775628)
• [ON TRACK] CSS Variables (bug 773296)
• [ON TRACK] Implement the auto value for the HTML dir attribute (bug 548206)
• [ON TRACK] CSS 2.1 Test Suite v.2
• [ON TRACK] CSS Spec, Unprefixing & Testing (bug 775235)
• [ON TRACK] Conditional Rules feature & spec (bug 649740)
• [ON TRACK] Scoped Style Sheets (bug 508725)
• [ON TRACK] SVG Text (bug 655877)
• [ON TRACK] Off Main Thread Animations (bug 755084, bug 706179)
• [AT RISK] Layout Azure Conversion (bug 776197 - needs staffing)
• [CARRY OVER] Support for Complex Scripts on Mobile
  • Example bugs: bug 619521, bug 619524, bug 676068, bug 631159
• Specs:
  • Web Animations (FPWD)
  • CSS Flexbox (CR)
  • CSS Cascade L3 (spec scoped style)
  • CSS Conditional L3 (CR)
  • CSS Text L3 (LCWD)
  • Selectors L4

Media

• [ON TRACK] WebRTC (tracking the W3C and IETF webrtc/rtcweb specs) landed for desktop in mozilla-central. (This includes both PeerConnection and full getUserMedia, but not UI.)
• [ON TRACK] Platform decoders running on the Otoro device will playback videos at a similar performance metric to the equivalent android player
• [ON TRACK] For a specific list of Android phones (the list will be the "first phase" of Android phones), platform decoders running in Firefox will playback videos at a similar performance metric to the videos playing back in the default browser on the same phone
• [ON TRACK] Publish (to one or more of our newsgroups) a plan for supporting the Web Audio API. (We're still hoping to make improvements to the spec.)

Mission Note: The media team will support B2G's efforts to ship B2G version 1 above any goals for this quarter.

DOM

• [ON TRACK] Stop leaks by adding purple buffer support for cycle collected non-nsISupports objects.
• [ON TRACK] Speed up cycle collection by representing a DOM tree as a single node in the cycle collector graph.
• [ON TRACK] New DOM bindings for a HTML Element.

WebAPI

• [ON TRACK] Implement cookie-jars for cookies, IndexedDB, localStorage, permission manager and appcache (bug 756644)
• [ON TRACK] Implement app:// protocol (part of implementing trusted apps, bug 756729)
• [DONE] Finalize multiprocess blob support for IndexedDB, DeviceStorage and Message Manager (bug 759427)
• [ON TRACK] Temporary storage for IndexedDB (bug )
• [DEFERRED] Implement unified offline storage quota system, putting IndexedDB and localStorage under this quota system (bug 767944)
• [DONE] Zip file contents support using blobs (bug 772434)
• [DONE] DeviceStorage improvements (expose available (free) size for each device storage, storage[x].removable (bug 765498)
• [DEFERRED] FileHandle improvements
• [ON TRACK] DeviceStorage onchange notifications (bug 763976)
• [DEFERRED] DeviceStorage editable features (bug 752724)
• [ON TRACK] String encoding/decoding API (bug 764234)

JS

• [ON TRACK] Land IonMonkey
• [ON TRACK] Incremental sweeping by compartment [bug 780960]
• [ON TRACK] Generational GC: get automated safety checks running and green
• [ON TRACK] Finish properties/elements split
• [ON TRACK] ES6: direct proxies [bug 703537]
• [ON TRACK] ES6: modules [bug 568953]

Accessibility

• [ON TRACK] Preliminary AccessFu support in B2G.
• [ON TRACK] TTS Web API & implementation.
• [ON TRACK] Performance: add two additional measures of a11y's effect on perf. Additionally, show measurable perf increase of at least 10% on two measures.

Perf

• [CARRY OVER] 736144: Async local storage via blocking pageload
• [CARRY OVER] 563742: provide js file api (in workers) for all supported platforms.
• [CARRY OVER] 662397: Reorder xul.dll on windows to speed up startup
• [CARRY OVER] 662444: call exit(0) on shutdown
• [CARRY OVER] 661881: Bundle about-telemetry extension to ship with Firefox
• [ON TRACK] 769241: Make libunwind work on ARM
• [CARRY OVER] Prevent, to a reasonable extent, background tabs from starving the main thread
• [ON TRACK] 770317: Track disk + network by thread on testing infrastructure

Networking

• [ON TRACK] Remove all synchronous disk cache APIs, or at least disable their use on the main thread, on mozilla-central.
  • Nick Hurley and Michal Novotny will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 766973: Don't allow synchronous DNS resolution from the main thread.
  • Josh Aas will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 105843: Land code to not necessarily delete the cache after unclean shut-down on mozilla-central.
  • Nick Hurley and Michal Novotny will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Have Stone Ridge reliably reporting basic performance results to graph server for all three top-tier platforms.
  • Nick Hurley will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 768705, 704447, 766817: Fix some remaining significant WebSockets bugs.
  • Jason Duell will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 702122: Land a DASH for WebM implementation in mozilla-central.
  • Steve Workman will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 737470: Ship SPDY v3 on by default.
  • Patrick McManus 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.