WebAPI/2013-04-23

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WebAPI Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-04-23 - 10:00 am Pacific

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Notes will be taken on etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/webapi-meetingnotes

Agenda

B2G work week last week

• down to 43 v1.0.1 blockers
• great discussions on performance, testing, memory usage
• b2g -> tbpl will be awesome for catching regressions
• branching discussions ongoing (move to gaia master/m-c gecko for 1.1?)

SysApps WG F2F 2 weeks ago in Madrid

• interesting discussions took place with various parties
• "feeling that whatever we say, people will follow it"
• lots of work to do to ensure people know we're working with the web platform and not another native platform
• good news: Anssi (now at Intel) joined the group and will help
• not many comments on Mounir et al's Runtime spec
  • http://runtime.sysapps.org/
  • Jonas going to try to make this driven by a task force of of SysApps and WebApps WGs

JS implementations -> C++

• jlebar's idea
• discussion on dev.platform
  • https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/XMkcvEAeA60

Andrea

• great B2G week for audio channel API
  • everyone's happy with it \o/
  • some questions remain for Ben
• is taking Future() task
  • has working code for simple case
  • Mounir recommends consulting spec
  • baku and Mounir to sync up on this

Jan

• Bug 798875 - Implement IndexedDB synchronous API
  • helped with remaining features
  • implementation is now feature complete
  • over 600k patch
• worked on a proposal for the sandboxed file system API
  • should be done very soon (maybe tomorrow for Jonas to present this week)
  • based on old proposal by Apple
  • https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/MinimalFileStorageAlternate
• going to run IDB tests under valgrind
  • potential heap corruption due to centralized quota manager?

Fernando

• Low device storage:
  • Bug 861894 - Avoid apps to schedule new offline cache downloads while device free space is low (WIP patches)
  • Bug 861920 - Avoid apps to write in its local storage while device free storage is low (WIP patches)
  • Bug 861921 - Notify the user about the low free storage situation (needinfo)
• Dialer app call log perf improvements

Anne

• Crypto uses Futures!
• met with Google guys about NavigationController
  • https://github.com/slightlyoff/NavigationController/
  • some concerns about performance of going through JS for fetches
    • Alex came up with a declarative map
    • concerns about complication of various proposals

Ehsan

• almost full-time on WebAudio still
• trying to find someone else
• if you're interested, lots going on there!
  • now we can test the API, were relying on luck before :)
• Anne had questions about versions of the spec
  • Audio API has both legacy and new API surface.
  • WebKit and Blink are not playing ball killing legacy so we're stuck with it.