Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-05-02

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Meeting Details

• 11:00am PDT (18:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 216 2181
• join irc.mozilla.org #bonecho for attendance taking

Agenda

1. Bon Echo Alpha 2 (Tracking & Status)
2. Development Roundtable
3. Any other business

Bon Echo Alpha 2

High level status review P1 and P2 requirements targetted at A2; please add detailed updates on all work in these areas to the Development Roundtable, below.

• Places
  
  • no longer a P1 for Alpha 2, disabled on the 1.8 branch
  • instructions on exporting bookmarks from places are available

• Visual Refresh
  
  • first proposals from Radiant Core are in, will review with other vendors and post to dev.apps.firefox for community comment

• User Experience
  
  • tabbed browsing? (last week: on target)
  • session restore? (last week: on target)
  • tab overflow? (last week: at risk)
  • microsummaries? (last week: at risk, myk recently posted a new patch to work with old bookmarking code)

• Feeds
  
  • parser: on target, mostly landed, need to get feed processor landed (rsayere is getting cvs access)
  • ui: missing target, to do is: move web handler api to window.navigator (~5d), ui preview in content area (~5d), hook up subscribe button in location bar (quick), link to preferences, testing.
  • code is on branch, but not enabled by default (need --enable-feeds)

• Extension Manager
  
  • new ui? (last week: on target)
  • automatic update to a locale pack based on browser locale? (last week: missing target, but Axel was going to help here)

• Search
  
  • management UI? (last week: on target)
  • grey text in background (last week: on target, modulo design decisions, patch ready)
  • suggest-as-you-type? (last week: missing target, mconnor's been working hard on this)
  • resizable search box? (last week: at risk)
  • search button? (last week: at risk, pam's been doing work on this)
  • search format version? (last week: not targetted at A2, to be handled offline)

• Installer
  
  • move to nsis? (last week: at risk, needed build magic)

• EULA/Distribution/Channel Support
  
  • work retargetted at B1, considering use of extensions

• Performance
  
  • event handling on mac? (last week: on target)
  • canvas optimizations? (last week: on target, ready for trunk)
  • darin's idle timer? (last week: missing target, needs to be looked at)

• Platform
  
  • JS 1.7? (last week: on target)
  • WHATWG offine storage (last week: at risk)
  • SVG updates (last week: missing target)
  • storage/sqlite (last week: on target)

• Anti-Phishing
  
  • front-end changes (last week: on target, ben to assist with prefpanel)
  • performance issues (last week: at risk)

• SSL2
  
  • new ECC ciphers? (last week: on target)

Developer Roundtable

Please add any status updates from the past week, including links to relevant bugs, newsgroup discussions, etc:

User Experience: Session Restore

• The core code has landed, but is not enabled.
• When enabled, the Ts tests failed to run: Tinderbox kills the app process between tests, not allowing clean shutdown. This triggers the session-restore prompt on the next startup, causing Ts failure because it can't get past the prompt. I filed 336193 for the shutdown issue. As a temporary workaround, I'm going to add a pref to disable crash prompts, so that we can get the service in the nightlies for people to test.

• Undo-close-tab: I have a patch for 254021, which can be applied once the session-restore service has been enabled.

User Experience: Microsummaries

• checked in two trunk -> branch sync patches for code in browser/ that microsummaries touches (bug 315346 and bug 335891) so I can create a single patch for trunk and branch;
• added support for old RDF-based bookmarks service;
• updated patch awaiting review in bug 334471.

Feeds: Parser

• all of Robert Sayre's patches except the Feed Processor itself have been landed on the branch and the trunk
  • the feed processor will be landed soon, and cvs access for Robert is coming shortly
• various document loading bugs fixed and out of the way. (thanks bz, biesi)

Feeds: UI

• Very basic in-page UI complete but needs tweaking, and post content. Disabled by default on branch and trunk. Shows for every feed document encountered provided there is no auto-handler specified.
• to enable, use ac_add_options --enable-feeds

Developer Documentation

• Eric Shepherd (sheppy) is getting started on Firefox 2 related documentation:
  • "Firefox 2 for Developers" will introduce all the cool new stuff developers will be begging to know about.
    • Expect to see Sheppy sniffing around for juicy tidbits of information. If he heads your way, don't run! The best way to get rid of him is to tell him cool technical stuff about Firefox 2 until he starts writing about it, then make your escape.
    • Feel free to be pre-emptive! If there's something you know needs to be shared with developers, drop email to sheppy@mozilla.com.
  • "New In JavaScript 1.7" will provide an overview of the latest JS features that will be supported by Fx2 by its final release.

L10n

zh-TW

at risk

trademarks review

lacks tracking

Other Business

• Tech writer Eric Shepherd will be hanging around from now on. Expect to hear from him if he hears anything that sounds like it may need documentation.
• add any new agenda items here