Mobile/Notes/2-Sept-2008

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Details

  • 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

Fennec Status

  • M7 has shipped! Hurray.

UX design

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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

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

Other

  • TraceMonkey landed, ARM work going on
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