Mobile/Notes/15-Sept-2008

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Notices

• Requirements

Fennec Status

Where are we with the next release?

• A1 bug list - Still lots of bugs needed to be fixed before alpha

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

UI

• Use larger canvas for panning [gavin]
• New theme [gavin]
• Soft keyboard support
  • IME patch landed
  • "offscreen browser" docshell attribute to fix focus/event problems waiting for sr
• camera input tag shelved for A1 priorities

Platform

• bug 236427

Windows Mobile

• bug 436531 asmXPTC_InvokeByIndex returning bogus value
  • wolfe - New patch r+ by benjamin, checkin-needed

• bug 444175 Crash in Cycle Collector
  • wolfe - Awaiting compiled/running XULRunner for re-testing

• bug 444485 Make WinMobile Build work with Visual Studio 2008 (VS9)
  • wolfe - New patch awaiting review by Ted Mielczarek

• bug 444486 Crash in nsFrame.cpp if BoxMetrics() returns NULL
  • wolfe - Lower priority than getting XULRunner building in mozilla-central

• bug 444487 Extensions should not be included in WinMobile build
  • wolfe - New patch added
  • No review currently planned for new patch
  • Patch can be used until a functional XULRunner can be built, then extensions can be turned back on and debugged

• bug 444492 Cairo _get_system_quality() function stubbed out in WinCE
  • wolfe - New patch reviewed, flagged as checkin-needed, and awaiting landing

• bug 444494 GlobalWindow Activation Event Sometimes Missed in WinCE
  • wolfe - Awaiting working XULRunner build for verification
  • Should be titled "WinMobile XULRunner Main Window Does Not Display Properly"

• bug 444495 getenv / putenv compiled out in WinCE NSPRPUB
  • wolfe - I saw this before, but have not gotten back to verify where compiler stubs are located.
  • Lower priority than getting XULRunner building in mozilla-central

• bug 454116 Potential Memory Allocation Failures in WinMobile (NEW)
  • wolfe - New patch awaiting review, dependency on bug 444485 re-added

• bug 454117 WinMobile / WinCE has no Access Control Levels (ACL) (NEW)
  • wolfe - Need to modify as per Doug suggestions

• bug 454119 WinMobile Compile Problems with mozilla-central (NEW)
  • wolfe - Breaking into a lot of smaller patches
  • bug 454703 WinCE Compiler Missing Values and APIs or Redefined Values
    • wolfe - need to modify patch as per doug's comments
  • bug 454709 WinCE Resource Compiling Needs Shunt Application
    • wolfe - Patch needed bug 444485's patch applied, awaiting review by Doug
  • bug 454712 WinCE tools need better command line parsing
    • wolfe - Patch needed reworking, two versions waiting review by Doug
      • Version 1: Actual Patch-To-Be-Applied, with formatting change to function to conform with Mozilla conventions
      • Version 2: Hand-stitched together "This Makes Much More Sense" Patch, removing indications of lines which changed in whitespace only
  • bug 454786 Configuration Changes to allow WinCE resource and assembly compiling
    • Patch r+ and awaiting checkin
  • bug 454797 WinCE GFX Cairo No MMX Support in ARM
    • Patch r+ and awaiting checkin
  • bug 454833 WinCE GFX Thebes Missing Exceptions Header
    • wolfe - Patch is r?pavlov@pavlov.net, awaiting review
  • bug 455354 WinCE GFX Thebes Windows Fonts Explicit Unicode API Call
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review
  • bug 455355 WinCE OGGZ file offset (no fstat in WinCE)
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review
  • bug 455357 WinCE LibTheora Pre-defined Macro usage in local variable
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review by chris
  • bug 455372 WinCE LibVorbis No FPU Support on WinMobile
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review
  • bug 455373 WinCE LCMS no compiler support for inline ASM
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review
  • bug 455374 WinCE JS DLL does not need DllMain() function
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review
  • bug 455378 WinCE missing APIs and Windows Messages (plus compiler warning)
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review
  • bug 455381 WinCE XPCOM Explicit Unicode API Calls, Wide Char CheckVersion Function
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review
  • bug 455382 WinCE XPCOM Explicit Unicode API Call
    • wolfe - Patch awaiting review

• bug 454120 Problems Compiling SECURITY module for WinMobile (NEW)
  • wolfe - New patch requested to be in CVS format
  • wolfe - Have email out to
  • Possible problems landing these changes (CVS verses HG repositories)
  • Patch file available to other developers now

Performance

• Networking
  • bug 447866 Better pipelining
    • Pat McManus has patch, needs review
  • 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
    • Has patches, going through review process now

Stability

• OOM
• Talos

Builds

• bug 430200 Linux hourly/nightly builds

Embedding

• bug 453437 Add support for evaluating JavaScript
• bug 455299 Unicode fixes in win32 sample