Mobile/Notes/10-Mar-2010

Details

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Schedule

[ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases ]

• Onward to 1.1

Major Topics for This Week

• Start sprinting on tasks
• Began investigating and building e10s
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s

Application

General Front-end

• Form autocomplete landed (tests ready to land too) bug 466770
• Add-on auto update patch is being tested. Should be ready for review today.
• Coding a patch and researching the link-click problem. Other bugs want to do similar things:
  • ElementFromPointWithArea bug 489127
  • Perform hit target detection/correction on tap clicks bug 547997
• Enough foundation design work has been completed to allow work to begin on:
  • Open in New Tab (via context panels)
  • Page interactions (direct use and/or cursor mode - TBD)
  • Manage site preferences
  • Clean up site panel (larry)
  • Start page redesign

Platform Support

E10S

• Ben and DougT tracking down and killing known issues (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/e10s)
• Targeting next Wed. to have another demo/build available for wider consumption.

Qt

• Lots of widget changes incoming from Nokia
• Very soon new minimum Qt requirement will be 4.6

General Back-end

Geolocation support

• Reviewed and commented on Orientation draft specification

Performance

• Need someone to look at bug 548664 which will help with startup on ARM.

Networking

• Need someone to look at bug 545869 which will help with network perf.

Release Engineering

• DougT and John Ford working on getting Maemo/Qt builds going.
  • found some issues with QEMU