Platform/GFX/2009-Jul-20

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Status Updates

• Joe
  • Last week:
    • Finish off bug 753
    • Start up with hardware acceleration. See: http://twitpic.com/ap1wx
  • This week:
    • In MV
    • Integrate a Cairo GL backend into our Cairo installation
    • Start with widget/etc changes required to support that GL backend.

• Jeff
  • Last week:
    • stroke-to-path prototyping
      • path closing, path closing with dashing, investigated arc dashing. It's too hard for now
    • hq image scaling cleaning
  • This week:
    • stroke-to-path implementation
    • hq image scaling cleanup/landing

• John
  • Last week:
    • Windows synthetic bolding, patch waiting on review bug 499621
    • family/fullname mismatch, patch waiting on review bug 496573
    • set up a patch to enable ClearType for downloadable fonts bug 504698
    • completed reviews of jkew's font unification patch
  • This week:
    • experiment more with ClearType rendering
    • compare text-shadow rendering across browsers
    • security issues
    • work on text system instrumentation bug 487756

• Bobby - bug 435296 (decode-on-draw)
  • Last week:
    • Got progressive decoding and header-only decode working together
    • Bunch of bug fixes - browser finally usable
  • This week:
    • Big list of various issues to work through, including
      • discarding
      • optimizing the progressive decode heuristics per joe's suggestions (timeout-based)
      • borderimage (breaks larry - argggh)
      • memory leaks
      • various progressive jpeg weirdness (not sure if this is unique to decode-on-draw)
      • better handling of pngs (no more longjmp)
      • Lots of inline TODOs
    • Some other restructuring that should probably wait since we might be rushing this patch
    • Lots of coupling so this is just one big patch right now. Might be possible to split it up later.

• Jim
  • Last week:
    • PC UI integration patches for browser/ext. mgr. (355555, 423587)
    • Win7 window docking patch (bug 489258)
  • This week:
    • Win. drag and drop activation bug (274205)
    • Win security policy and prefs work related to attachments (504804)
    • Popup rollup hooks investigation (504650)

• Rob
  • Last week:
    • Fixed resize-on-minimize windows bug (bug 502713)
    • Fixed keyboard shortcuts on wince (bug 500745)
    • Revising patches for aero peek and widget cleanup
  • This week:
    • Aero Peek front end work
    • Remove MouseTrailer code from widget/src/windows (more initial checkin code)