Mobile/Notes/02-Sep-2009

Details

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Application

General Front-end

• Landing the nsPromptService changes (bug 489423) (and related patches)
• Working to land new Add-on options scheme (bug 512882) (and blog about it)
• Editing site prefs patch could land soon (bug 456077)
• In the middle of some "inverse theme" patches (bug 513858)
• Landing several blocking patches and working on more

Platform Support

Windows Mobile

• 21 bugs blocking final release http://bit.ly/blocking-wm
• 2 bug blocking alpha 3 http://bit.ly/blocking-wma3
  • bug 514007 - titlebar pops over window when switching orientation on HTC touch pro
    • this bug prevents the user from using the url bar or closing the app
    • brad and doug actively working on this
    • we have a patch that fixes the titlebar problem but causes a hidden window to come to the foreground
  • bug 512472 - Fennec lays pages out too wide, resulting in very small text
    • text is near impossible to read on some sites (example m.cnn.com stories)
    • stuart is looking at the old viewport meta tag patch
• A3 Blocking list was down to 0 on Friday, testing of RC1 found some good ones
  • big thanks to QA, particularly jmaher and aakashd

General Back-end

Performance

Builds

• n810 status
  • stable, room for improvement but able to work on other things
  • unittest breakage, talos crashes
    • tracemonkey breakage