WebAPI/2013-04-23
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WebAPI Meeting Details
- Tuesday 2013-04-23 - 10:00 am Pacific
- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98413
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- Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
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- WebAPI Vidyo Room / SF-Golden Gate (3rd floor) / Toronto-Spadina
- Join irc.mozilla.org #webapi for back channel
Notes will be taken on etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes
Agenda
B2G work week last week
- down to 43 v1.0.1 blockers
- great discussions on performance, testing, memory usage
- b2g -> tbpl will be awesome for catching regressions
- branching discussions ongoing (move to gaia master/m-c gecko for 1.1?)
SysApps WG F2F 2 weeks ago in Madrid
- interesting discussions took place with various parties
- "feeling that whatever we say, people will follow it"
- lots of work to do to ensure people know we're working with the web platform and not another native platform
- good news: Anssi (now at Intel) joined the group and will help
- not many comments on Mounir et al's Runtime spec
- http://runtime.sysapps.org/
- Jonas going to try to make this driven by a task force of of SysApps and WebApps WGs
JS implementations -> C++
- jlebar's idea
- discussion on dev.platform
Andrea
- great B2G week for audio channel API
- everyone's happy with it \o/
- some questions remain for Ben
- is taking Future() task
- has working code for simple case
- Mounir recommends consulting spec
- baku and Mounir to sync up on this
Jan
- Bug 798875 - Implement IndexedDB synchronous API
- helped with remaining features
- implementation is now feature complete
- over 600k patch
- worked on a proposal for the sandboxed file system API
- should be done very soon (maybe tomorrow for Jonas to present this week)
- based on old proposal by Apple
- https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/MinimalFileStorageAlternate
- going to run IDB tests under valgrind
- potential heap corruption due to centralized quota manager?
Fernando
- Low device storage:
- Bug 861894 - Avoid apps to schedule new offline cache downloads while device free space is low (WIP patches)
- Bug 861920 - Avoid apps to write in its local storage while device free storage is low (WIP patches)
- Bug 861921 - Notify the user about the low free storage situation (needinfo)
- Dialer app call log perf improvements
Anne
- Crypto uses Futures!
- met with Google guys about NavigationController
- https://github.com/slightlyoff/NavigationController/
- some concerns about performance of going through JS for fetches
- Alex came up with a declarative map
- concerns about complication of various proposals
Ehsan
- almost full-time on WebAudio still
- trying to find someone else
- if you're interested, lots going on there!
- now we can test the API, were relying on luck before :)
- Anne had questions about versions of the spec
- Audio API has both legacy and new API surface.
- WebKit and Blink are not playing ball killing legacy so we're stuck with it.
