Why

• Metro on windows will be big with the launch of windows 8
• 'fast & fluid & fun to use'
• the "touch first firefox'
• Being marketed heavily to the development community with the lure of 1 program, all windows devices (potentially including xbox)
• the default browser setting is shared between metro & classic, meaning that if a user sets IE as their default on metro, if they have it set to firefox on classic, it will still flip that setting. This could severely impact our market share.
• highly desired by Product Management for the H1 product. :)

Contact

• #windev
• There is no mailing list currently, email group

Team of awesome

• mbrubeck - tech lead (front end)
• mfinkle - fennec battle hardened (management)
• jimm (back end, windows guru)
• tabraldes (backend, loan from Platform)
• fryn (front end)
• ally (front end, loan from Services Integration)
• Asa (product)
• ywang (UX)

former eng

• jwilde - did a bunch of front end for internship
• bbondy - did a bunch of backend (now on b2g)

Day to day Affairs & Meetings

• Tuesdays 1pm pst - product/ux
• Thursdays 1pm pst - eng focused: jimm vidyo room
• triage sometimes happens at the thursday meetings

Where are the bugs?

• have its own product catagory
  • note that installer and certain other bugs are filed elsewhere
  • when searching make sure to search for the os as well as the component
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=os%3Ametro%20-sw%3Acompleted-elm;list_id=4562234

Where's the code?

• elm hg branch: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/
  • /browser/metro has the front end code

What do I need to build it?

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Windows_8_Integration#Building_Locally
  • VS 2012 == mvcs 11. No, it does not make any sense
  • make sure to grab the VC install from the mozilla servers
  • clone from http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/
  • make sure to add "ac_add_options --enable-metro" to .mozconfig
• build faster!
  • ./build/pymake/make.py -f client.mk
  • soon to be mach (waiting on merge from m-c)
• mac or linux? http://limpet.net/mbrubeck/2012/09/19/metro-firefox-without-windows.html
  • currently busted on mac: see bug 797533
• what hardware is recommended for testing?
  • Windows boxen w/touch screen. The Samsung slate PC is recommended.

Schedule

• tentative : end of 2012 & middle of 2013

1.0 Shipping Requirements

• more features vs earlier ship?
  • may have millions of users in short order due to win8 upgrades
• have not been defined
• scope is unclear
• burn down list TBD

Reference

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_Metro_UI
• ms has some great documentation floating around
  • developer guide: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/hh852650
  • js focused articles: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh770842
  • pile of presentations: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29854
  • js code samples: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/site/search?f[0].Type=ProgrammingLanguage&f[0].Value=JavaScript&f[0].Text=JavaScript