Mobile/Notes/15-Sept-2008

Details

• Mondays - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 314 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 314 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Notices

• Requirements

Fennec Status

Where are we with the next release?

• A1 bug list - Still lots of bugs needed to be fixed before alpha

UX design

• work-in-progress UI design status page UI design status spreadsheet
• query for A1 Fennec UI polish bugs: Fennec A1 UI polish bugs

UI

• Use larger canvas for panning [gavin]
• New theme [gavin]
• Soft keyboard support
  • IME patch landed
  • "offscreen browser" docshell attribute to fix focus/event problems waiting for sr
• camera input tag shelved for A1 priorities

Platform

• bug 236427

Performance

• Networking
  • bug 447866 Better pipelining
    • Pat McManus has patch, needs review
  • bug 364315 Speculative parsing
  • bug 453403 dns prefetching

• Graphics
  • bug 450400 Moving a background image via style.backgroundPosition in a XUL stack is slow
    • Effects us having a checkerboard pattern for missing areas
  • bug 450916 Moving a canvas around in a stack is slow
    • We need this fixed so we can remove the sync repaints
  • bug 450930 We redraw too often
    • Has patches, going through review process now

Stability

• OOM
• Talos

Builds

• bug 430200 Linux hourly/nightly builds

Embedding

• bug 453437 Add support for evaluating JavaScript
• bug 455299 Unicode fixes in win32 sample