WebAPI/2012-01-03

Agenda

• WebTelephony
• WebSMS
• IndexedDB
• Network API
• Contacts API
• Battery
• Testing
• Screen Orientation
• Question: should we join DAP WG?

Meeting Notes

• SMS
  • Waiting for reviews on android. Need to figure out what we want to have on mobile firefox.
  • Mobile team wants to use a different way to talk between gecko and Java. Blocked on figuring out a strategy
• USB
  • Jim from B2G team might be looking at implementing
• Bluetooth
  • Andreas drafted a low-level API. Kyle looking at implementing
• Network API
  • DOM API and android backend ready to land
  • Linux backend awaiting review
  • Device Status TF feedback seems generally positive
• Screen orientation
  • Mounir sent API proposal to webapi list
  • Lets page detect screen orientation
  • Lets page disable screen rotation and lock to particular orientation
• testing
  • mostly turning attention to B2G as I got a build env working last week (hooray!)
  • would be interesting to try out the telephony stuff in emulator if there are instructions
  • will be working with test planning this week (webapis, but also b2g) will be hitting people up for input
  • looks like I'll be learning how to build/use the emulator
• Automated tests
  • Able to test sending messages to the device and pick them up using WebSMS API in the webpage!
  • Other things should work too but hasn't been tested
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/Marionette/Marionette_Client_API
• Should we join DAP?