Platform/2013-Q2-Goals

GFX

Platform 2013 Goals

1. Games/Media/Social/Location
2. Performance
3. Development velocity/productivity
4. Firefox OS
5. Firefox Desktop
6. Firefox Android
7. Overall Software Quality

Goals (WIP)

Ship

• [ON TRACK] 716140 - Multi-threaded image decoding. [3,5] (Train 23)
• [AT RISK] 804893 - Layers refactoring, D3D11 compositor. [2,3,5] (Train 22)
• [ON TRACK] 804893 - Layers refactoring, D3D11 compositor. [2,3,5] (Train 23)
• [ON TRACK] The GFX team will resolve all actionable security bugs within six weeks of their entering our components and receiving sec-high or sec-critical designation. [7] (All trains)

Land

• [ON TRACK] 651857 - Azure improvements. [2,3,5] (Trains 24,25)
• [ON TRACK] WebGL performance improvements as driven by the games team. [2,6] (Trains 24,25)
• [ON TRACK] 687187, 827229 - SkiaGL based canvas performance improvements on mobile. [2,6] (Trains 23, 24, 25)
• [ON TRACK] Fix WebGL security bugs. (Train 25)
• [ON TRACK] D2D 1.1 (Trains 24, 25)

Investigate

• [WISHLIST] Off main thread painting.
• [WISHLIST] Gradient performance.
• [WISHLIST] OMTC on the Mac
• [WISHLIST] XP software path optimization
• [WISHLIST] More robust downloadable blacklisting solution

DOM

• [ON TRACK] Worker work - Enable FileReader on Worker Thread (khuey)
• [ON TRACK] 850065 Sliding views / incremental CC (Andrew)
• WebComponent (blake, william)
  • [ON TRACK] 653881 Land XBL refactoring patches
  • [ON TRACK] 806506 Implement ShadowRoot interface (as of March 25th)
  • [ON TRACK] 854736 Implement basic insertion points without selector support
• [ON TRACK] Snow white (for faster addref/release and for security fixes) (olli)
• [ON TRACK] 853893 Sane event handling for workers (olli, khuey)
• [ON TRACK] 848294 Update Message, Animation and Transition event implementations to match specification (olli)
• [ON TRACK] 578700 ES6 Spec - Binary Data support (nsm)
• [ON TRACK] UndoManager (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/undomanager/raw-file/tip/undomanager.html) (WChen)
• [ON TRACK] Push Notifications support on Desktop (https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/SimplePush) (nsm)
• [ON TRACK] 851639 Make it possible to register WebAPIs implemented in JS on navigator w/o writing any C++ code. (parity with current XPCOM mechanism)
• [ON TRACK] Convert every Node to new bindings
• [ON TRACK] TBD New bindings for window?
• [ON TRACK] TBD Date support in new bindings?

WebAPI

• Fix XMLHttpRequest's Stream integration (annevk)
  • Need to look at the details of Stream itself too and how to read from it, etc.
• Get Fetch 80% done (other 80% TBD) (annevk)
• Land the Future feature in DOM (Gecko implementation TBD) (annevk, mounir)
• Clarify the WebAPI table with respect to standardization (basically add a status column) (annevk)
• Figure out what our story is when there's no standardization in progress (annevk)
• Land multiple file support in <input type="file"> on m-c (baku)
• Move resource timing api forward (baku)
• Plug localStorage and appcache into temporary storage (janv)
• Simple storage JS library (janv, mounir)
• Get annotations to improve diagnosis of threading and memory issues into tree (bent)
• Integrate IndexedDB into Gecko profiler to help diagnose performance issues (bent)
• IDB in workers (janv)
• Help reduce orange factor to 7 (all)
• Have all SysApps specs at FPWD (mounir)
• Work with B2G team and get Inter-App Communication API to FPWD (mounir)

Accessibility

• Feature: Implement and land global magnification for FF OS.
• Reactivity: Assist to resolve any blocking accessibility work within 2 weeks.
• Quality: The accessibility team will resolve all actionable security bugs within six weeks of their entering our components and receiving sec-moderate or higher designation. (all trains)

Mobile

• [ON TRACK] Resolve all mobile security bugs that received a designation of sec-moderate or higher more than six weeks ago. This is a permanent goal for the group.