Mobile/Notes/8-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

• A1 Freeze is Tuesday, Sep 9 @11:59PM PDT.
• Requirements

Fennec Status

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

• bug 436083 Viewport meta tag
  • Needs dbaron or roc to fix bug 443076
• Working on the "universal, 3 section, panning" UI [mfinkle]
  • sidebars and nav bar are panning ok, but I need to fix a bug with the webcontent panning.
  • daniel and finkle need to plan out the addon, download, preferences (what do we call that area?) UI mechanism
• bug 406837 Soft keyboard support
  • patch attached to implement using IME
  • bug 435885 Focus issue with auto-complete pop-up
  • IME event not fired when focused through canvas (fennec specific issue)
• bug 451674 Expose camera functionality
  • Extended video tag to show video feed from camera using video4linux2
  • "Tee" created which will create image
• Use larger canvas for panning [gavin]
  • Got sidetracked by Firefox branch work, will have patch this week
• New theme [gavin]

Windows Mobile

• bug 418703 Moving Windows ascii APIs to wide ones
  • crowder making lots of progress landing patches
• Other patches getting in to bugs

Performance

• Networking
  • bug 364315 Speculative parsing
    • mrbkap says this is close, should land next week
  • bug 447866 Better pipelining
    • Pat McManus has patch, needs review

• 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
    • Effects responsiveness and performance

Stability

• OOM
• Talos

Builds

• bug 430200 Linux hourly/nightly builds

Other

• Geolocation

Other

• TraceMonkey landed, ARM work going on
  • bug 449526 Some parts have landed