Mobile/Notes/03-Aug-2011

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Schedule

• Fennec 8 (nightly)
  • This is the active development trunk
• Fennec 7 (aurora)
  • Need to move only required fixes from trunk (as those fixes are made)
  • Fixed on Aurora this week:
    • bug 636042 - All fonts are serif, give preference to stock android fonts
    • bug 675236 - portrait view shifted on tablet awesomescreen
    • bug 673674 - Fennec freezes when viewing a non .txt file from disk.
• Fennec 6 (beta)
  • Fixed on Beta this week:
    • bug 636042 - All fonts are serif, give preference to stock android fonts
    • bug 675236 - portrait view shifted on tablet awesomescreen

Next merge date is 2011-08-16

Application

Front-end

• Work for Fx8
  • Tablet UI
    • Implementation is being tweaked
  • Selecting text in web content followup bugs
    • Landed more fixes on fx8
    • Seems like we should move the existing fx8 fixes to fx7 and will be OK.
  • Language picker support for locales on AMO
    • Process of getting XPIs to AMO bug 674253
    • Logistics work is underway to figure out how to handle nightly and aurora impact
  • Basic webapp support
    • Need to "appify" the tab in a similar way to desktop
    • Need to support manifest approach bug 609043
  • Master Password
    • Should be good for landing. Status?

• Let's make sure we are working on other bugs and minor features too

UX design

• reviewing current and near-future state of text selection handles
• tablet designs moving to dev (brian)
• working on
  • start page (ian)
  • "fennecomb" visual design

• if you have bugs that need UX-input/feedback/review - please add the ui-wanted keyword (and/or email madhava)

Platform Support

Android

• NDKr5 deployed