Mobile/Notes/22-Sept-2008

Details

• Mondays - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 314 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 314 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Notices

• Requirements

Fennec Status

• M8?
• A1

UX design

• work-in-progress UI design status page UI design status spreadsheet
• query for A1 Fennec UI polish bugs: Fennec A1 UI polish bugs

• working on A2-related items (esp. weave-integration, find-in-page, context menus)
• starting in on seeing how the design works with a smaller, squarer screen
• if you open a bug that needs some UI/UX attention, use the "UI wanted" flag -- I'm watching for those

UI

• Use larger canvas for panning [gavin]
• New theme [gavin]
• Soft keyboard support

Platform

• bug 236427 -- what do other browsers do?

Performance

• Networking
  • bug 447866 Better pipelining
  • bug 364315 Speculative parsing
  • bug 453403 dns prefetching

• Graphics
  • bug 450400 Moving a background image via style.backgroundPosition in a XUL stack is slow
    • Effects us having a checkerboard pattern for missing areas
  • bug 450916 Moving a canvas around in a stack is slow
    • We need this fixed so we can remove the sync repaints
  • bug 450930 We redraw too often

Stability

• OOM
• Talos

Builds

• bug 430200 Linux hourly/nightly builds

Embedding

• bug 453437 Evaluating JavaScript finally landed :)
• bug 456232 Add basic web navigation support to MozView (mfinkle)
• Verifying and updating docs for Qt build