Platform/2012-Q4-Goals

GFX

• [ON TRACK] Prototype GPU acceleration for Azure/Skia canvas on mobile
• [ON TRACK] Prototype GPU acceleration for Azure/Skia canvas on Windows
  • Determine if this is possible on Windows XP due to context loss etc
• [ON TRACK] Have a clean, dependable, extensible, all-platform, free-of-adverse-cache-effects driver blacklisting solution.
• [MISSED] Enable Azure for content everywhere
  • De-prioritized for OMTC/Layers work
• [ON TRACK] OMTC implemented, landed and turned on for Metro product beta
• [ON TRACK] Turn on GL layers on Linux
• Other important Q4 work
  • [ON TRACK] OMTC on Direct3D 9, OpenGL on Desktop, basic layers
  • [CARRY OVER] WebGL test suite compliance
  • [CARRY OVER] CSS font spec work
  • [MISSED] Convert drawing code to Azure
  • [ON TRACK] Other B2G and mobile work as necessary

Layout

• [CARRY OVER] Readability 2.0
  • reflow-on-zoom ship/no-ship decision
  • [DONE] mobile fonts APK support
  • [CARRY OVER] mobile fonts licensing
  • [DONE] retina support
• [CARRY OVER] Complete Graphite Fonts Project (bug 631479)
  • [MISSED] needs final sec-review
• [DONE] Invalidation via DisplayList Analysis (bug 539356)
  • fix regressions
• [ON TRACK] CSS Flexbox feature/spec (bug 666041)
  • pref'ed on
• [ON TRACK] Add image visibility API (bug 689623)
  • r+ and land
• [CARRY OVER] CSS Vertical Text (bug 145503)
• [CARRY OVER] CSS Pagination (bug 775628)
• [ON TRACK] CSS Variables (bug 773296)
• [ON TRACK] Implement the auto value for the HTML dir attribute (bug 548206)
  • patch needs r+ and landed
• [CARRY OVER] CSS 2.1 Test Suite v.2
• [CARRY OVER] CSS Spec, Unprefixing & Testing (bug 775235)
• [ON TRACK] Scoped Style Sheets (bug 508725)
• [ON TRACK] SVG Text (bug 655877)
• [CARRY OVER] Off Main Thread Animations (bug 755084, bug 706179)
• [MISSED] Layout Azure Conversion (bug 776197
  • de-prioritized for OMTC work
• [CARRY OVER] Support for Complex Scripts on Mobile
  • list actual Q4 scope
  • Example bugs: bug 619521, bug 619524, bug 676068, bug 631159

Media

• [ON TRACK] WebRTC enabled by default (not behind a pref or config flag) in time for Firefox 20 uplift
• [ON TRACK] Land media platform decoding functionality for Android's Gingerbread and Honeycomb OSs in mozilla-central. One target device for each OS will be identified and agreed upon by Media and Android to verify functionality. Success criteria: platform decoders running in Firefox will playback videos at a similar performance metric to the videos playing back in the default browser on the same device.
• [ON TRACK] Demo H.264/MP4 support using Windows Media Foundation on Windows 7 or Windows 8 Metro

DOM

• [DONE] Make new DOM bindings codegen generate stub class for implementers (in a text file or what not).
• [CARRY OVER] New DOM bindings for HTMLElement.
• [ON TRACK] new binding for HTMLDocument
• [ON TRACK] new bindings for 10 HTML element classes
• [DONE] make calling new binding callbacks easy and safe

WebAPI

• [CARRY OVER] Temporary storage for IndexedDB (bug 785884)
• [CARRY OVER] Implement unified offline storage quota system, putting IndexedDB and localStorage under this quota system (bug 767944)
• [ON TRACK] Assist with reducing memory usage and increasing performance of B2G (bug 797189)
• [ON TRACK] Make B2G v1 a high quality release
• [ON TRACK] USBCode in DOM key events
• [ON TRACK] Number form support for desktop
• [ON TRACK] Develop and submit to W3C a proposal for "fixing appcache"

JS

• [CARRY OVER] Incremental sweeping by compartment [bug 790338]
• [CARRY OVER] Generational GC: get automated safety checks running and green
• [ON TRACK] Manage memory by zones (to reduce memory usage) [bug 759585]
• [CARRY OVER] Finish properties/elements split

Accessibility

• [ON TRACK] FF OS for users who are blind (land accessfu + TTS on trunk pref'ed on).
• [ON TRACK] AccessFu/jsat test coverage.
• [AT RISK] Initial UIA implementation (Narrator support).

Perf

• [CARRY OVER] 736144: Async local storage via blocking pageload
• [CARRY OVER] 662397: Reorder xul.dll on windows to speed up startup
• [CARRY OVER] 662444: call exit(0) on shutdown
• [CARRY OVER] 661881: Bundle about-telemetry extension to ship with Firefox
• [CARRY OVER] 769241: Make libunwind work on ARM
• [CARRY OVER] Prevent, to a reasonable extent, background tabs from starving the main thread

Networking

• [ON TRACK] Resolve all networking basecamp blockers that are marked as blocking before November 1st.
  • This work will be done primarily by Jason Duell, Honza Bambas, and Brian Smith.
• [ON TRACK] 713933 Enable TLS false start for NPN/SPDY in mozilla-central.
  • Patrick McManus will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Remove all potentially blocking disk cache API usage in nsHTTPChannel and nsWYCIWYGChannel, on mozilla-central.
  • Nick Hurley and Michal Novotny will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] 702122: Have full adaptive DASH for WebM video enabled by default on Aurora.
  • Steve Workman will lead this effort.
• [ON TRACK] Resolve all networking security bugs that received a designation of sg:moderate or higher more than six weeks ago. This is a permanent goal for the group.

Mobile

• [ON TRACK] Resolve all mobile security bugs that received a designation of sg:moderate or higher more than six weeks ago. This is a permanent goal for the group.
• [ON TRACK] Support shipping ARMv6
• [ON TRACK] Ship H.264 on ICS & JB [bug 787227]
• [ON TRACK] Implement support for H.264 on GB on trunk [bug 787228]
• [ON TRACK] Investigate support for Java addons [bug 799631]
• [ON TRACK] Determine if we can be competitive with the stock browser on 256Mb devices [bug 792131]
• [ON TRACK] Ship safe browsing to Beta
• [ON TRACK] Support shipping fonts in the APK in Beta
• [ON TRACK] Support shipping to an alternative app store with improved updater
• [ON TRACK] Make full screen video experience pleasant for the user [bug 800673]

Dependencies

• QA for shipping ARMv6
• Media team for H.264 support