Mobile/Notes/30-Mar-2009

Details

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Fennec Requirements

• Requirements

Status

UX design

• working on making the theme more interesting while still non-obtrusive, and also have tie-ins with Firefox on the desktop (colours and glyph shapes)
  • WIP theme revisions -- Sean will blog about this soon

Front end

• Big 3 (add-on manager, download manager and preferences) panels
• UI blockers
• We landed widget changes for radiobuttons and checkboxes. Some theme tweaks will likely be needed.

Geolocation support

Windows Mobile

• 6 blockers remaining
• problem found with jemalloc
  • bug reopened
  • solutions exist, but are being debated
• A couple people from the community are working on a directDraw backed surface, should be a big perf win

Symbian

Performance

• Networking

• Graphics
  • Canvas self-copy
  • bug 485426 ARM simd rgb24->565 optimizations
  • bug 482676 Neon pixman optimizations
  • bug 483409 Use XShm for pushing to the screen

• Startup
  • Places patch (bug 483980) was backed out due to a unit test failure

• Layout
  • bug 67752 Interruptible Reflow
  • bug 482689 Optimize background displaylists for opaque images

• Fennec
  • bug 485612 Don't reflow the document while zooming to page

Plugins

Builds

QA

Items from last week:

• Continued adding [litmus] cases
• Updated [test plan]
• First fennec specific browser chrome [test] for review (Zad)
• Completed [maemkit] toolset to run all unittests on mobile

Q2 proposed goals:

• Integrate unittests into buildbot for Maemo
• Increase community adoption of Beta releases by finding more channels
• Develop tools to get unittests running on Winmo
• Increase litmus coverage and make test plan release quality
• Add browser-chrome to the unittest framework

Upcoming this week:

• Test WinMo builds
• Investigate more issues with unittests on device
• Start work on adding more comprehensive geolocation tests

• Partner Version
  • Tomcat will cover this testing with testplans etc

Weave

Current Milestone

Other

• Fennec 1.0 beta 2 triage http://tinyurl.com/c6acf7