User:Ehsan/WebAPI Projects

Ehsan's WebAPI Projects

Text Selection/Caret

• Thought about the UX questions we need to have answers to, and posted to dev-b2g about this, CCing Carrie Wang.
• Engineering contacts: Yuan Xulei, Rudy Lu and Jan Jongboom
• Product contact: Thomas Ho
• Filed bug 924419 to track the implementation -- will file blocker bugs on that as we move forward.
• Received UX designs, and provided some help on what we need to do in order to implement the selection handles.
• Been helping with the implementation

Exposing APIs

838614

MessagePort.onclosed

• Gaia folks need some kind of notification when the other side of a message channel goes away
• Determined that we can't fix the general problem, resorted to fixing the catastrophic failure case.
• whatwg thread

UX Designs for Offline

• Talked to UX about the offline UX designs they're going to work on
• Will participate in their conversations to provide technical feedback on the feasibility of the designs, and also to come up with use cases to make sure Service Workers will address our needs.
• etherpad

Network Information API

• spec

FM RDS

• Gave feedback on bug 864327 and bug 942727.

DataStore Security UX

• Gave more feedback on the UX designs, Rob to provide a new version next week.
• DataStore has been pushed to 1.5.

System Resources Stats API

• bug 854200

Image Resizing/Video Thumbnail API

• Researching use cases

window.open(..., dialog)

• CCed Vivien and Alive

Standardizing Web Activities

• Document existing practices (activity names, inputs, outputs)
• Align the related ones (example: "view" vs "open")
• Clean things up
• Target 2.1 (Gecko 34) -- if the cleanup work is not too much, perhaps bump up to 2.0
• Example of the problem: bug 932387