Mobile/Notes/18-Aug-2008

Details

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Notices

• M7 Freeze is Tuesday, Aug 19 @11:59PM PDT.
• A1 Freeze is Tuesday, Sep 9 @11:59PM PDT.
• Requirements

Fennec Status

UX design

• work-in-progress UI design status page UI design status spreadsheet
• concepts done for "managers" - mockups in progres, to be posted today and tomorrow

UI

• bug 443212 Kinetic scrolling
  • brad landed, needs perf work
• bug 436083 Viewport meta tag
  • Needs dbaron or roc to fix bug 443076
• bug 441794 User configurable keyboard shortucts
  • Needs review. Mark Finkle already started?
  • Depends on bug 441414 (r?)
• bug 444248 Add interactions for UI.
  • Gavin r+ first patch but Finkle had to update with non-trival changes.
• bug 437959 Add-on functionality.
  • WIP patch ready - could be used if other UX bits could be added to followup bug(s).

Windows Mobile

• bug 418703 Moving Windows ascii APIs to wide ones
  • crowder makes lots of progress landing patches

Performance

• Networking
  • bug 364315 Speculative parsing
    • mrbkap says this is close, should land next week
  • bug 447866 Better pipelining

• 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
  • bug 450916 Moving a canvas around in a stack is slow
    • We need this fixed so we can remove the sync repaints
  • bug 450930 We redraw too often
    • Effects responsiveness and performance

Stability

• bug 450467 Osso stuff keeps killing our app
  • fixed

Builds

• bug 430200 Linux hourly/nightly builds
  • Initial staging slave is set up, PYTHONHOME problem fixed.
  • One manually triggered build on staging slave deemed ok by DougT and Brad! :-)
  • Need to rollout same changes to production slaves
  • working on setting up master based on config in bug.

Embedding

• bug 450270 Modal windows support for Qt

Other

• bug 422221 DirectFB port has landed on mozilla-central
  • bug 449959 422221 causes fennec to crash on startup. 3ec41ccae7f6 is the last cset before this was checked in. [@ gdk_x11_drawable_get_xdisplay - cairo_draw_with_gdk]
• bug 448989 Qt port has landed on mozilla-central