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Hacks Calendar

Ideas for Articles & Demos

Updates Schedule

• Web: Account Manager
  • Have Draft
  • Done
• Web: WebSocket
  • Our bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472529
  • Included in Chrome 4 and 5
  • Incompatible between 75 and 76
  • Waiting for stability and security
  • Compression: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/hybi/current/msg01810.html
  • http://blog.chromium.org/2009/12/web-sockets-now-available-in-google.html
  • Have Draft
  • Done
• HTML5 Parser
  • Done

• Web: calc()
  • Have Draft: need a more real example
  • Our bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363249
  • Not done in tree yet.
• HTML5: FormData
  • Ready to post
• Web: -moz-any(): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544834
  • Ready to post
• Security: CSP
  • Brandon to do a post
  • Connect with Beta
• Security: Strict Transport Security
  • Need a post from STS
• Mobile: viewport tag for mobile
  • http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2010/05/11/fennec-meta-viewport.html
  • Need to mail Matt about re-posting

• WOFF
  • Shipped in 3.6
  • Submitted to W3C: http://dbaron.org/log/20100426-woff
  • Supported by Microsoft: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20002919-264.html
  • Dave Hyatt just took bug in WebKit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31302
  • Submission: http://www.w3.org/Submission/2010/03/
  • Likely in Chrome: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20003277-264.html
  • Also include CSS3 fonts update?
  • Blizzard mailed the two John/Jons on 4/21
• Web: IndexedDB
• Web: contentEditable
• Web: server sent events
• Web: Video updates
• Web: WebGL
• Web: Contacts + Identity
• JS: ES5
• JS: JM
• Gecko: Lazy Frame Construction
• Gecko: OOP Plugins
• Perf: HTTP Pipelining
• Perf: Caching Improvements
• Security: :visited
• Web: Touch Events
• Web: Canvas Performance + threads (.data)
• Web: SVG SMIL
• Web: HTML5 History
• Testing: (Betas, Profiles, 150,000 tests)

Ideas

• FormData: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546528
• WOFF in the (almost) real world - Steven Garrity / reviewer:J. Daggett/J.Kew?
• CSP - late Feb/early March - Sid Stamm
• list of fx 3.6 features: this one can be a standalone article, or the start of the HTML 5 article series. Let's figure it out.
• HTML 5, standards work (who/what/why), link to HTML5 mdc page
• Mobile
• Hackability
• From survey: (could be hacks blog or newsletter post)
  • How to get involved w/ Mozilla if you're a web developer
  • Firefox development process, how to give input/feedback
  • Behind the scenes of Firefox: ongoing performance and stability work
  • How to work w/ multiple profiles
  • Developer Tools series (kickoff w/ survey results)
• Firefox.next:
  • CSS Transitions
  • WebSockets
  • WebGL (w/ planetGL)?

Twitter Queue

• We will try to keep track of tweets here.

Guest bloggers

Nominate potential guest bloggers we should reach out to for hacks articles.

• Cloudkick - real-time server visualization with canvas and processing.js: http://mzl.la/9cmypi (published 4/27/10)

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