Firefox/Planning/2012-10-03

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Planning Meeting Details

• Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
• Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
• Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
• (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
• Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Add-on SDK

Release (1.10 -> Firefox 16, 17)

Stabilization (1.11 -> Firefox 17, 18)

Development (1.12 -> Firefox 18, 19)

Landing progress:

• loader: ✓
• m-c landing plan - DRAFT available here.

No audible update as I tripped and went to Berlin for the week, will be back next week.

Market Insights

Desktop / Platform

Google

• Google Play's is starting to roll out a series of service-based APIs, all powered by OAuth, allowing app developers to use a standard interface to use Google-based IDs in their apps.
• The latest Chrome Beta now offers WebRTC and Track support for HTML5 video.
• In an effort to win more adoption within businesses and other large organizations, Google now offers telephone support for Google Apps customers
• This week's stable version of Chrome now supports ICCv2 colour profiles

Microsoft

• Microsoft unveiled TypeScript, a Javascript source processor that allows large development teams to more easily create more strongly-typed code.

OpenWebOS

• The OpenWebOS project, as promised, released version 1.0 of the open source version of the mobile operating system originally developed by Palm. Here's a video of it ported to a Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Opera

• Opera 12.10 beta was released, offering SPDY support, touch support on Mac and Windows 8 Classic mode, the Share button in Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Mac Retina display support as well as the Fullscreen and Page Visibility APIs. It also supports a number of webkit-prefixed CSS properties

Yandex

• Yandex, the large Russia-based search engine, has launched its own WebKit-based browser, offering translations between 9 languages.

Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

• Mobile devices account for more than 10% of page views in the US and select European countries
• The average tablet users in the US does not generate more page views than the average phone user, despite longer browser sessions
• Difference in data tracking at infrastructure and device levels exposed in US study
• Upgrade to 4G speeds increases data demand of users
• Rumoured announcement of 7.8-inch iPad Mini in October
• 55% of Androids are on Gingerbread, 23% on Ice Cream Sandwich and 12% on Froyo
• Chrome is default browser on the Motorola Razor M
• 25% of Americans own a tablet, half on iOS and half on Android
• Device with 1.7 GHz quad-core CPU soon available in Europe and North Asia