Shumway

Are we Flash Yet?

• Shumway Github
  • Shumway intro
  • Shumway Github wiki
  • Live Demos
  • Firefox Extension Preview
    • Configuring the Extension
• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/shumwaymeeting

Schedule & Milestones

Important Dates

• Fx26: Active as of 08/06, Ships 12/10
• Fx27: Active as of 09/17, Ships 01/21
• Fx28: Active as of 10/29, Ships 02/04

M1 (Due: October 1) [Shipped]

Target: Flash Ads

Land in Nightly on Desktop for all platforms, *preff'd off*

Target Audience

Flash and web developers who want to test their content with Shumway and a general audience of folks who are interested in a Flash Player Alternative and want to provide feedback

Landing Criteria

• [ON TRACK]Playback Flash Ads from white listed sites on all Desktop Platforms
• [AT RISK] Create developer and user friendly look and feel bug 905705 - WebDev for Areweflashyet.com
• [ON TRACK] Criteria includes:
  • Confidence that we render enough content
  • Confidence that if we are unable to render content, we fail gracefully and give the user the ability to provide feedback (akin to submitting a crash log?)
  • Acceptable CPU usage
  • Acceptable Memory Usage

Now that Shumway has landed, how do I enable it?

• Easy. on Fx27 Nightly, just go to about:config and search for shumway.disabled. Flip that pref to 'false' and you should be all set
• There are other prefs to explore which you can read more about, here: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/wiki/Debugging-and-Configuring-Shumway#using-the-extension

What about the Summit Demo?

• You can check it out, here: http://areweflashyet.com/summit2013/candy.html

M2 (Due:TBD)

Target: Improve Ad Playback, Improve "Sharing of Shumway"

• [ON TRACK] Land telemetry probes bug 900566

• [PLANNED] Incremental Progress on UX Implementation bug 905679, bug 905705
• [PLANNED] Enable some games

Product Roadmap & User Stories [In Progess]

M1 [ON TRACK]

• As a Metro Firefox user, I experience rich ads so that I don't have to see a bunch of empty boxes as I surf the Web without Adobe Flash player.
• As a Firefox user, I have a more stable browsing experience because Firefox natively renders Flash ads, increasing my user satisfaction, usage, and likelihood to recommend.
• As a Firefox user, I have a more responsive browsing experience because Flash ads in background tabs are throttled, increasing my user satisfaction, usage, and likelihood to recommend.
• As a Firefox user, I can opt in to Firefox native Flash support so that I can help Mozilla test the feature.
• As a Firefox user, I have a mechanism to revert to the Adobe Flash player for specific content blocks, so I am not broken in cases where Firefox's native rendering is insufficient.

Tracking

JS Perf

Full Query

ID	Priority	Summary	Status	Assigned to
650284	P3	Investigate performance of accesses to own and inherited properties (__proto__)	NEW
856178	P5	IonMonkey: Optimize append operations on strings.	NEW
901157	--	Slow property access for objects created with Object.create(Array.prototype)	NEW

3 Total; 3 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);

General

Full Query

ID	Priority	Summary	Status	Assigned to
640633	--	Expose API for getting path of text to canvas	NEW
778617	P3	[meta] Tracking bug for Media Source Extensions API implementation	NEW
829803	--	Add support for masking to Canvas	NEW
903575	--	canvas element need to provide information about its visibility state	NEW
919950	--	Add a way to get per-tab (or -compartment) memory profiles from content code	NEW
952539	P3	WebGL should support efficiently uploading a subrect of a canvas to a texture	NEW
1017285	P5	Custom data visualisation	NEW
1023102	--	Avoid seams between filled areas by optionally disabling anti-aliasing.	NEW
1024566	P5	Provide an API to decode image data synchronously	NEW
1024674	P5	copyRect for ImageData or PixelArray	NEW
1064573	P5	Ignore all breakpoints at given location	NEW
1127095	--	Much slower than v8 on function creation microbenchmark (Firefox is 8x slower than Chrome)	NEW

12 Total; 12 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);