Mobile Web Compatibility
With Mozilla's mobile offerings (Firefox for Android and Firefox OS), Mozilla controls only part of the user experience – delivering the products. The other part of the user experience is controlled by the mobile Web content that is available. The current state of the mobile Web is not one of standards compliance but one of user agent (UA) sniffing and Webkit specific functionality. We need to open up the mobile Web to other rendering engines like Gecko, Presto, and Trident.
There are 4 key problem areas that must be addressed:
- user agent (UA) detection
- Webkit prefixed CSS
- Webkit specific DOM/JS/content
- Gecko limitations
Goal
The vague goal for this project is to open up the mobile Web to non Webkit based browsers.
A specific project goal is being defined by the market insights, product, and project management teams.
Scope
- In scope
- Any site with a mobile version
- Any locale
- Out of scope
- Site enhancements
- Trivial site layout or functional bugs
- Firefox Marketplace app testing
Projects
- Evangelism
- Gecko improvements
- Webkit CSS/DOM/JS property aliasing
- Spade
Spade is an automated tool that will provide guidance as the the scope of the mobile Web problem.
Communication
| Communication Type |
Mechanism |
Audience
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| Announcements |
compatibility and dev-planning lists |
all
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| General discussion |
compatibility list |
all
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| Meetings |
Thursdays 9am PT
- Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95346
- People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95346
- US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95346
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95346
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95346
- US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95346
- CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95346
- CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95346
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95346
- FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95346
- 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
- SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
- Vidyo: PB&J
- IRC: #planning
- Agenda: sent to compatibility list before meeting
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all
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| Meeting summaries |
this wiki and Lawrence Mandel's blog |
all
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| Evangelism status |
arewecompatibleyet.com report |
all
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Press & Blog Posts
Minutes and Progress Reports
| 2013
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- Thursday, January 17, 2013 - Minutes
- Thursday, January 10, 2013 - Meeting cancelled due to B2G work week
- Thursday, January 3, 2013 - Meeting cancelled for holidays
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| 2012
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- Thursday, December 27, 2012 - Meeting cancelled for holidays
- Thursday, December 20, 2012 - Minutes
- Thursday, December 13, 2012 - Meeting cancelled due to availability to regular participants
- Thursday, December 6, 2012 - Minutes
- Thursday, November 29, 2012 - Minutes
- Thursday, November 22, 2012 - Meeting cancelled for US Thanksgiving
- Thursday, November 15, 2012 - Minutes
- Thursday, November 8, 2012 - Status (meeting cancelled), Blog – Video update, UA detection tools, Phony for B2G?
- Thursday, November 1, 2012 - Minutes
- Monday, October 22, 2012 - Video update (at 4:00)
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People
| Project Champion |
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| Program Management |
Lawrence Mandel
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| Engineering |
Brad Lassey
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| Product Management |
Vishy Krishnamoorthy
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| Incoming Bug Triage |
Jason Smith, Aaron Train
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| QA |
Tony Chung, Jason Smith, Aaron Train
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| Market Insight |
John Jensen
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| Dev Engagement |
Jean-Yves Perrier, Ali Spivak
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References