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Planning Meeting Details

  • Wednesdays - 11:00am PDT, 18:00 UTC
  • Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
  • Toronto Offices: Fin du Monde 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# 95312 (US/INTL)
  • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
  • Vidyo Room: Warp Core
  • Vidyo Guest URL
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Actions from Last Week

Schedule & Progress on Upcoming Releases

Firefox Desktop

Release (3.6, 6)

Beta (7)

Aurora (8)

Nightly (9)

Firefox Mobile

6

7

8

9

  • Platform support for Flash on pre-Honeycomb devices landed.
    • Mark Finkle working on the UI part to enable flash (Push-To-Play)
      • Possibly done in the next few hours.
    • Need to message that this isn't a *great* experience, but does get you out of a pinch when flash is needed.

Firefox Sync

Add-on Builder

Add-on SDK

Release (1.1 -> Firefox 7)

  • released last Tuesday, September 13, two weeks before Firefox 7
  • 1.0 -> 1.1 repack testing delayed, then stalled on IT issues

Stabilization (1.2 -> Firefox 8)

  • development branch merged to stabilization branch last Tuesday, September 13
  • first test build, 1.2b1, spun yesterday, Tuesday, September 20 (release announcement)
  • final release on schedule for Tuesday, October 25, two weeks before Firefox 8
  • might move up final release one week to Tuesday, October 18, three weeks before Firefox 8 (discussion)

Development (1.3 -> Firefox 9)

  • development begun last Tuesday, September 13
  • merge to stabilization branch on schedule for Tuesday, October 25
  • as with 1.2, might move up merge and final release one week to ship three weeks before Firefox 9

Feedback Summary

Desktop

Mobile

UX & User Research

Market Insights

Desktop

Windows 8 at BUILD

  • Windows app store was not yet available, but will be the gateway to getting apps into the Windows Metro interface.
  • Windows Metro applications are written for a new environment, WinRT, and will be compatible across x86 and ARM, traditional ones will not.


Internet Explorer 10

  • Microsoft released Platform Preview 3 (PP3) of IE10 with the Windows 8 preview. PP3 of IE10 will be released on other platforms at a later date.
  • The IE10 Metro browser will not support plugins, the traditional desktop browser will.
  • IE10 Metro browser is a full screen, "immersive" UX with a swipe interface, navigation at the bottom of the screen, tabs at the top; this can be expected to be the same experience on Windows Phone. The interface appears to be complete.
  • IE10 has significant platform updates including 3D visual effects, page layout and local storage. Full list on MSDN.com.


Google Chrome Chrome 14 hits stable channel and includes two significant updates:

  • Web Audio API allows for greater audio effects based on web content
  • Native Client (NaCl) -supports only Chrome Web Apps at the moment.


Swiffy Beta With the demise of Google Labs, Google released Swiffy as a beta service. Swiffy is a tool to convert Flash videos to HTML, SVG and CSS. Firefox is not fully supported by the tool, citing bug 119490.


Safari & DigiNotar Apple reportedly issed a fix to Safari for DigiNotar certificates on September 9th.


Mobile

Summary below, full update here and in your inbox.

  • Opera acquired Handster, a mobile app store solution
  • Google is preparing for the Ice Cream Sandwich release
  • Samsung and HTC are also concentrating on their own mobile platforms
  • Google Wallet, using NFC technology, launched
  • The first Windows Phone 7.5 updates to be rolled-out to consumers today

Marketing, Press & Public Reaction



Questions, Comments, FYI

Actions this week

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