Mobile/Notes/2-Sept-2008
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- Tuesday - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
- Normally 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
- M7 has shipped! Hurray.
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
- Sean Martell working on polished versions of all the UI on the working UI page(s)
- So that we're doing this in a more open way, he now has a blog here: http://blog.seanmartell.com/ -- he'll be posting the UI work to it over the next few days; I'll point to it when the first related post goes up
- Sean also working on a First Run page that will help get people started using the off-screen-chrome UI (bug 452313)
- New since last week - Prefs mockups are here: Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/workingUI#Preferences -- posting significantly reduced set of prefs to the bug (bug 436077)
UI
- bug 436083 Viewport meta tag
- Needs dbaron or roc to fix bug 443076
- More clean up needed bug 451576, bug 451373 & bug 449517
- We could add some elements as data members to remove some doc.getElementByID too
- 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]
- waiting for update from Madhava/Sean
Windows Mobile
- bug 418703 Moving Windows ascii APIs to wide ones
- crowder making lots of progress landing patches
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
- bug 364315 Speculative parsing
- 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
- bug 450400 Moving a background image via style.backgroundPosition in a XUL stack is slow
Stability
- OOM
- bug 452489 isLowMemory predicate on maemo. Need to land.
- removed the watcher thread
- Dromaeo.com doesn't crash, but doesn't complete (OOM).
- Using high watermark, we do get our OOM notifications, but it is luck.
- Need to add OOM checks to image, frame construction, others? Can we do something in jemalloc?
- Talos
- Need to identify the problem pages. Hit OOM, continue, then crash.
Builds
- bug 430200 Linux hourly/nightly builds
Other
- Geolocation
- Smaug found a possible bug bug 452762
- Smaug fixed 452566 bug 452566 navigator.geolocation optional parameters on getCurrentPosition and watchPosition are not optional
- Investigated problem found by henrik@gemal.dk whereby we were not using the current browser when displaying the infobar.
Embedding
- bug 451401 Access to underlying XPCOM API : Pushed to http://hg.mozilla.org/incubator/embedding
- Updated doxygen
- Added docs on using XPCOM to access DOM: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/NewApi/XpcomAccess
Other
- TraceMonkey landed, ARM work going on
- bug 449526 ARM TM work