Mobile/Notes/08-Jan-2014

Details

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• Mobile Vidyo Room

Schedule

• Next merge: 2014-02-03

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Make sure friends also get awarded a badge. New contributors are highlighted in bold.

• Sofia Larsson fixed bug 922682 - reflozPinchSeen is unused in browser.js
• Frederik Braun fixed bug 948894 - Move inline scripts and styles into separate file for about:apps (he also filed a bunch of similar bugs and has been helping mentor other new contributors!)
• Neil Bleasdale fixed bug 948897 - Move inline scripts and styles into separate file for about:feedback
• Veeti Paananen fixed bug 952789 - Sync progress screen uses a Gingerbread progress bar and bug 951274 - Disable "click on selected text to copy"
• Eduard Neculaesi fixed bug 923238 - Swiping away updater download notification should cancel the download
• Isura Edirisinghe fixed bug 943703 - Create helpers.HelperInitializer for UITests
• Capella fixed bug 947284 - End text-selection handle is not visible when opting to select all text and bug 957259 - Error: "TypeError: caretPos is null" in SelectionHandler.js

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

Margaret

• Done
  • Finished some home list stuff
    • bug 862805 - Allow add-ons to register custom lists on about:home
    • bug 941318 - Create content provider to store data for lists on about:home
    • bug 950919 - Get rid of "aboutHomePage" flag
    • bug 951054 - PageEntry strings should be recomputed when locale changes
  • Other small fixes
    • bug 951605 - Regression: EV green lock and non-EV gray lock swapped
    • bug 921668 - Home Page Snippets icon is tiny on HiDPI devices
    • bug 950719 - Bing search icon is larger than other default search icons

• Next
  • More home list work, mainly focused on the content provider/data part of things
  • Make sure snippets are in shape for 29

mcomella

Past

• 952343 - Dismissing editing mode (back button) started from web content will not return to web content
• 952336 - Switch-to-tab on the current tab does not reshow web content

Feature Focus

Fx27, Feb 4, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Overhaul of the favicon system bug 914296
• [ON TRACK] Marketplace discoverability - simple UI polish
• [ON TRACK] WebRTC platform support, continued
• [ON TRACK] Remove overscroll and show highlight instead bug 705246 and bug 791475
• [ON TRACK] Memory usage improvements: bug 931843
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: South African English (za-EN), bug 891616
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Thai (th), bug 639845
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Lithuanian (lt), bug 521999
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Slovenian (sl), bug 522008

Fx28,March 18, 2014

• [AT RISK] bug 768667 - Use the action bar for text selection on ICS+
• [AT RISK] Added locale: Belarusian (be), bug 521981
• [ON TRACK] bug 852608 - Add support for OpenSearch. Firefox Mobile supports <link rel="search">
• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed off
• [ON TRACK] Background Thread Hang Reporting bug 932865
• [ON TRACK] Added locale: Estonian (et), bug 946204

Fx29,Apr 29, 2014

• [ON TRACK] Dynamic snippets support preffed on
• [ON TRACK] Telemetry probes for Fennec UI elements
• [ON TRACK] bug 875750 - Implement <input type="color">: Android widget/color picker
• [AT RISK] PDF.js support (v1 cupcake) <== proposing to use built in PDF to help load balance
• [AT RISK] WebApp experience - APK Synthesis
• [AT RISK] Multiple Quickshare Buttons - 2 Quickshare on main menu
• [AT RISK] Quickshare Contexts
• [AT RISK] Firefox Accounts with Sync 1.1 integration
• [AT RISK] My List: Manage current lists in settings
• [AT RISK] Shumway Bundled in Browser (disabled), bug 905668
• [PROPOSED] API: Contacts (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Geolocation services (incl permissions bump)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Indonesian (id), bug 521995
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Hindi(hi)
• [PROPOSED] Promo snippet for Sync
• [PROPOSED] Promo snippet for Marketplace
• [PROPOSED] Preloaded bookmark for Marketplace

Fx30, Jun 10, 2014

• [PROPOSED] Quickshare: Settable default service for quickshare buttons
• [PROPOSED] Third-party service integration MVP
  • [PROPOSED] My List: How My List works (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Save any web-viewable content (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new My List from Promotional Panel (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Subscribe to feed or service as a new list (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] My List: Add new and improved list management in Settings (MVP reqs only)
  • [PROPOSED] Service integration: Downloads (MVP reqs only)
• [PROPOSED] Preferred web content language
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Vietnamese (vi)
• [PROPOSED] Added locale: Afrikaans (af)