Mobile/Notes/22-Sept-2008

Details

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• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 314 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel

Notices

• Requirements

Fennec Status

• M8?
• A1

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

• working on A2-related items (esp. weave-integration, find-in-page, context menus)
• starting in on seeing how the design works with a smaller, squarer screen
• if you open a bug that needs some UI/UX attention, use the "uiwanted" keyword -- I'm watching for those

UI

• Use larger canvas for panning (bug 450816) [gavin]
  • had a patch a while ago, has since been bitrotted by other panning changes
  • pretty complicated since it changes a lot of invariants that the panning code depends on
• New theme (bug 454668, bug 454674) [gavin]
  • haven't made progress since last week, want to close outstanding bugs this week
• first run page (bug 452313) [gavin]
  • need to address mfinkle's l10n review comments, otherwise done
• xul scrolling (bug 432702) [gavin]
  • looked into it a bit this weekend, going to work on a patch that supports scrolling subframes (also affects e.g. iframes)
• spatialnav panning (bug 452274) [gavin]
  • have patch, need to sort out issue with underlying <browser>/canvas not being the right size by default
• kinetic scrolling fixup (bug 455453) [blassey]
  • going to finish reviewing that patch today [gavin]

• Soft keyboard support

• some UI work in progress [mfinkle]:
  • Add ability to close tabs (bug 454667)
  • Difficult to "close" strips (bug 454978)
  • Sidebars don't go away when you pan away while zoomed until you hit an edge (bug 455645)

Platform

• bug 236427 -- what do other browsers do?

Windows Mobile

• windows mobile meetup this week.

Performance

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

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

• Working on Reducing the Mochitest Failures
  • Some issues failing Mochitests are:
    • bug 455891 - Unable to set focus on certain elements
    • bug 455866 - Plugin Not Found Event Not Fired
    • bug 455956 - Embedded Objects set width/height to auto
    • bug 454613 - Show modal dialog issues
  • Looked at the differences between Windows and Ubuntu desktop mochitest runs
    • Found that things are mostly similar, with only a handful of OS specific failures, which is good.

This week we will focus on getting these bugs above confirmed, and continuing triage into the issues that are blocking a full mochitest run.

Also this week, we'll attempt a mochitest run on the n800 itself as well to see how things stand there.

Embedding

• bug 453437 Evaluating JavaScript finally landed :)
• bug 456232 Add basic web navigation support to MozView (mfinkle)
• Verifying and updating docs for Qt build