Evangelism/DeveloperFeedback

File Upload

• 12/15/2008 - http://gordon-myers.com/?p=170
  • Notes from Chris Blizzard
  • Can't use width and height to style form control (would be simple and well-understood - could set a minimum size as well)
  • No obvious visual way to clear file value (can do with a button)
  • Use the cancel button in the dialog to clear the value?
  • Instead of using a text box, use a simple box
  • Need docs on how to use file dialog + XHR + progress (see the blog for a code snippit)

• 3/6/2009 - http://observationpoint.org/articles/2009/03/06/multiple-file-upload-support-in-safari-4-public-beta/
  • Multiple file upload
  • Do we have a bug open on this?

• 4/28/2009 - Matt Mullenweg - uploads suck, show a progress dialog or something even not in content

Network Performance (Downloading)

• Example: zip file to download a huge number of images
• Degrades nicely and is simple

Clipboard

• 2/23/2009 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407983
  • Reported by Dion
  • Can't get clipboard data like IE and WebKit
  • Nice blog post from Dion. (added by sethb, Dion is not self promoting.)

DOM Events

• DOMContentLoaded is firing early
  • Affects dojo
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444322
  • Reproducable with Firebug installed very easy
  • http://gchris.googlepages.com/444322.html

Offline Data Access

• Google Gears Database: http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_database.html
• HTML5 SQL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#sql
• DOM Storage
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Storage
  • http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#structured-client-side-storage
  • we don't implement localStorage yet - looking to include it in 3.1?
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422526
  • http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/4e63eb60878b81ba#
• Offline Resources in Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Offline_resources_in_Firefox (not exactly data access but is an important part.)

Video

• Can't load from local file? (willyaranda on irc)
  • To have an access to the "pixels" of a video (via canvas) in a file:// context, this option is needed: security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy: false
• Dailymotion
  • ontimeupdate="foo()" works, but addEventListener("timeupdate", ..) does not FIXED
  • buffered not implemented: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462957

• Would be really nice to be able to pre-buffer specific clips and make it possible to switch between them seamlessly. Would need to be able to have progress events, explicitly pre-buffer and then have a way to specify moving from one clip to the next seamlessly. (We do something similar with images we can pre-buffer.)

Tools

JSON

• http://www.wait-till-i.com/2009/02/28/ttmmhtm-truth-about-social-networks-crayon-pixels-jsonview-and-wireless-electricity/
  • Some good notes on JSON stuff in here
• http://brh.numbera.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/24/jsonview-view-json-documents-in-firefox/
  • This might be nice to have native - Christian is right
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10122
  • Colorizes and Prettifies JSON that's viewed.

CSS

• text-overflow ellipsis - when are we going to be able to support it? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312156