Mobile/Notes/06-Oct-2008

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Notices

• Requirements

Fennec Status

• M9 freeze October 7 -- *This tuesday*

UX design

• work-in-progress UI design status page UI design status spreadsheet
• query: Fennec A1 UI polish bugs
• query: all Fennec UI polish bugs
• query: Fennec uiwanted bugs

• if you open a bug that needs some UI/UX attention, use the "uiwanted" keyword -- I'm watching for those

UI

• working on theme fixes, larger canvas for panning (bugs) [gavin]

Windows Mobile

Doug Turner, Brad Lassey, and John Wolfe have been struggling to get a compiled version of mozilla-central running on WinMobile.

Difficulties include problems loading debug images into Emulators, problems loading debug images into devices, and lack of symbols when debugging via Visual Studio.

Here are a list of our currently outstanding bugs against Windows Mobile, and a snapshot of their state (current as of Friday, 3-Oct-08):

• bug 444486 Crash in nsFrame.cpp if BoxMetrics() returns NULL (REVISIT)

• bug 444487 Extensions should not be included in WinCE build (WONTFIX)

• bug 444494 GlobalWindow Activation Events Sometimes Missed in WinCE (waiting working XULRunner) (REVISIT)

• bug 444495 getenv / putenv compiled out in WinCE NSPRPUB (REVISIT)

• bug 454120 Problems Compiling SECURITY module for WinMobile (CVS or HG Authoratative?) (NEW)

• bug 454833 WinCE GFX Thebes Missing Exceptions Header (REVIEW?)

• bug 455355 WinCE OGGZ file offset (no fstat in WinCE) (WONTFIX)

• bug 455381 WinCE XPCOM Explicit Unicode API Calls, Wide Char CheckVersion Function (NEW)

• bug 455382 WinCE XPCOM Explicit Unicode API Call (NEW)

• bug 455709 WinCE GFX Thebes Windows Fonts Missing Uniscribe Font Support (TEMP PATCH - NO CHECKIN) (NEW)

• bug 456449 NSPRPUB Changes needed for compiling WinMobile WinCE Build (Review?)

• bug 456683 Toolkit LIBXUL-CONFIG MOZ_PSM PIP Support (COMMENT 0 CONFUSED?) (Review+)

• bug 456689 Win CE does not have GetRandomRgn() (NEW)

• bug 456788 reduce windows ce shunt impact (NEW)

• bug 456813 WinCE Shunt Needs Localization Setting (NEW)

• bug 457040 WinCE RegOpenKeyExA causes compiler error (Patch Review+)

• bug 457047 WinCE FatalAppExit function missing in OS (Patch Review+)

Performance

• Networking
  • bug 364315 Speculative parsing
  • bug 447866 Better pipelining
  • 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

Stability

• OOM
• Talos (done) needs to be handed off to build.
• Mochitest (bug 454613)

• Plugins
  • bug 456091
  • bug 456045

Builds

• bug 430200 Linux hourly/nightly builds

QA

• Big Blockers for Mochitests (unlocks a large number of mochitests)
  • bug 455891 - issues with setting Focus on elements
  • bug 454613 - showModalDialog issue

• Lesser issues, related to plugin support:
  • bug 455956 - plugin style
  • bug 455866 - pluginNotFound event not firing

• started running mochitests on Nokia - working on retooling Heather's script to run directory by directory since we're still hitting resource issues with running the full suite of mochitests on the N810.