Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2006-08-23

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Meeting Details

• 11:00am PDT (18:00 UTC)
• Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
• +1 866 216 2181 (or +1 303 228 0514)
• join irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

Agenda

• Gecko 1.9 Roundtable
• Firefox 3
• Any other business

Gecko 1.9 Roundtable

• XBL2

• Performance testing meeting following this meeting

• Things not on our current feature lists, that may be needed for Firefox 3
  • full-text indexing for sqlite/mozStorage
    • Do we expose this to DOM Storage?
  • microformat detection services
    • myk/dmose to look into it
  • XUL prettyfication
    • gradients with CSS using cairo
    • transparency effects
    • simple animation elements
    • single-direction percentage-based layout (same direction as your parent box)
    • need actual use cases for all of these
  • web services as content handlers
    • need to work with Hixie's spec (URI protocol and mime types)
    • can we do microformats in this same framework?
  • tab drag and drop between windows
    • detach/reattach views?
    • docshell code sucks; need to talk to bz
    • not going to try to do this for 1.9; need to reevaluate after we get rid of widgets/views, but we're not going to plan on doing this
  • chrome overlays inside content
    • e.g. in-page microformat UI (use XBL to attach to some already existing part of the dom)
    • overlaying images with chrome to do things like block that image

• roc view/widget removal
  • land old patch to see current performance impact

Firefox 3

• I posted to dev.apps.firefox about gathering user problems, but it might get ratholey :(
• I also proposed a new format for describing themes for data collection which sherman is moving over to a wiki
  • we need to start moving on these data collection activities *now* in order to help us generate and prioritize requirements for Firefox 3 and beyond
• I'm trying to come up with ways of driving out requirements (both front end and gecko) which are based on actual user needs and problems; will have something shortly to share.