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29-May-2013

Mobile: 2013-05-29

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule

  • Next merge: 2013-06-24
  • Next release: 2013-06-25

Topics for This Week

Prompt.jsm

Wes landed new code for dealing for prompts in JavaScript. The mailing list has some info but also see bug 875119. We have plans to add more of these kind of JS wrappers. We also plan to add documentation to MDN.

GeckoView

Brad has been working on initial patches for creating a web rendering view based on Gecko. Mailing list has some details (bug 867517). Some early next steps include: Making a JAR for embedders and starting to use GeckoView in Firefox.

Friends of the Mobile Team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

  • Mark Capella filed, investigated and fixed bug 874036 – Tab counter displays incorrectly in some circumstances
  • Mark Capella also fixed bug 862445 – Adjust reader mode content layout for serif fonts
  • Federico Paolinelli fixed two download notification bugs
    • bug 746976 – Tapping a download notification for unknown files types should open the download manager to the download
    • bug 696911 – Hide download notification if the download opens on completion
  • Nicolas Carlo has been investigating some “night mode” improvements
    • bug 875852 – Reader Mode: Ambient light level changes are too sensitive
    • bug 872003 – Fade from light to dark could be smoother / faster

Stand ups

Suggested format:

  • What did you do last week?
  • What are working on this week?
  • Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

James W. (snorp)

  • Last week
    • Taipei for Web Rendering work week. Good discussions around WebGL, Canvas 2D, Moz2D (Azure), SkiaGL, etc.
    • Bug 854556 – [Skia] Only hold a ref to the SkCanvas in DrawTargetSkia
  • This week
    • Bug 848482 – [SkiaGL] SourceSurface doesn’t currently work with SkiaGL (seriously, yes, still)

Kats

  • Last week
    • bug 868212 – silence JS warning on startup
    • helped glandium a bit with bug 874708
    • bug 868742 – fix to properly scroll frames where clientHeight is less than scrollHeight
    • bug 865735 – Add a units template parameter to gfx Point/Size/Rect classes
    • spent some time debugging bug 797615 (intermitting failure in testVkbOverlap) and have a fix
  • Next week
    • continue work on 865735-related things (propagating the type information in various parts of the code)
    • look at hit detection options for async subframe scrolling.

GBrown

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

  • Done
    • bug 869156 – Show the toolbar if the page shrinks
    • bug 803299 – Use 24-bit colour on 24-bit screens (on inbound)
    • bug 870055 – Page continues moving while finger is on screen (b2g browser)
  • Doing
    • bug 868998 – Reveal toolbar by scrolling a certain distance
    • Mentoring on bug 711959 – animations could be performed more efficiently
    • Initial investigation on bug 864447 – Support display port on sub-frames
    • PTO for 2 weeks

Chris Peterson

  • Helping Shane get up to speed and start implementing Contacts Web API
  • Java-side of Push Web API
  • bug 776223 – NullPointerException at ClipboardManager.setPrimaryClip(ClipboardManager.java)
  • bug 872076 – java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: CONTROL_LOCATION_UPDATES at LocationManager.<init>(LocationManager.java)
  • Band-aid for bug 849589 – Intermittent robocop PROCESS-CRASH RuntimeException: Only ByteBufferInputStream is supported at org.mozilla.gecko.mozglue.NativeZip.<init>(NativeZip.java:32)
  • Mentoring some bugs

Shane Tully

  • bug 785156 – Lock icon should toggle site security popup
  • bug 790775 – Sony Ericsson Xperia Play’s “circle” and “cross” D-pad buttons generate unexpected keycodes
  • bug 871938 – Crash reporter strings should use a variable for vendor instead of hardcoding ‘Mozilla’
  • bug 871514 – Replace “click” with “touch” on About:firefox update button
  • Started Contacts API

GCP

  • Last week:
    • bug 874572 getUserMedia – Browser holding lock on device camera despite browser activity in the background and paused
    • bug 874546 getUserMedia – Video playback does not resume when browser returns to being the foreground activity
  • Next week:
    • Likely more of the same 😛
    • Bug backlog
  • Blockers:
    • Current builds SIGSEGV in unrelated code when run under the debugger.

Brian N

  • Done
    • Bug 867058 – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: bytes.length 0 must be a positive number
  • Ongoing
    • Bug 874985 – Create session restore unit tests
    • Ouya controls

Sriram

  • Got review+ for Quick share menu.
  • Cleaning up BookmarksPage based on feedback.
  • bug 848317 – Screen corruption on Nexus 4.
  • Dynamic responsive tab header is giving all the trouble!
  • PTO on Friday.

LucasR

  • Last week
    • Holiday on Monday
    • bug 864958 – Darken private browsing chrome
    • bug 877140 – Fade in toolbar buttons while hiding tabs tray
    • bug 867608 – Fix animation margins for forward button
    • (Investigated) bug 844502 – In landscape orientation, tab menu overlays content, page stuck resizing and shifting around
    • (In progress) bug 871651 – Janky animation to enter editing mode
    • A bunch of patch reviews
  • Next week
    • bug 871641 – Tapping on tab from last session doesn’t dismiss editing mode
    • bug 871642 – Touch home pager should dismiss editing mode
    • bug 862794 – About:home “visited” panel

Liuche

  • re-fixed bug 873230 – Organize tablet/phone xml files
  • bug 870169 – Extract usable telemetry from ANRReporter
  • bug 872329 – Apply existing settings to proposed Settings UI rework hierarchy
  • aurora uplift for bug 872543 – Long-form data reporting notification sticks around after visiting settings

Next:

Margaret

  • Done
    • bug 873429 – Form assistant suggestions is not dismissed while entering different letters
    • (fig) bug 871645 – Consolidate names of browser toolbar’s element
    • Investigated bug 861164 – use different search URLs for tablet vs. non-tablet
  • In Progress
    • bug 868052 – Toolbar does not appear when hardware menu button is pressed
    • Investigating reader mode regression caused by dynamic toolbar – bug 872961
  • Next
    • More bugs
    • (fig) bug 876712 – Kill AweseomeBar/AwesomeBarTabs

RNewman

FHR. Fix in AddonManager (Bug 877061), progress on shuffling add-ons from Gecko into Java (Bug 875400). Almost there!

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week(s):

  • Was at web rendering workweek last week in Taiwan.
  • bug 862763 : FontInflationEnabled() shows up in profiles but shouldn’t
  • bug 836565 : Reflow-on-zoom has lag after zooming in to an element
  • bug 847872 : Reflow-on-zoom on double-tap only
  • bug 870788 (in review) : Reflow-on-zoom should reflow each subdocument asynchronously

This Week:

  • Consider uplift of double-tap zoom to Fx23?
  • bug 766599 : Font inflation without requiring refresh
  • bug 864595 : Assertion in caretPositionFromPoint
  • bug 865654 : Caret position from point sometimes gets incorrect offsets for text inputs (review+, should land this week after I figure out test failures)
  • Additional cleanup bugs for reflow-on-zoom (e.g. bug 876161)

BLassey

  • bug 867517 Gecko-based WebView, landed the refactor patch. Just got r- on the actual WebView patch.
  • bug 872139 Slow down zoom animation, Ian now has a build with this and the double-tap-to-reflow patches to evaluate.
  • bug 876270 crash in mozilla::plugins::parent::_getvalue, fallout from WebView refactor
  • bug 872137 Make history menu use PromptService asynchronously, landed
  • bug 870063 Make context menu use PromptService asynchronously, finkle wants Prompt.jsm
  • bug 856445 Startup crash on LG Optimus Black (LG P970), r+, landed
  • bug 866957 Cell tower data reporting, still dealing with the review(s)

MFinkle

  • Stole bug 861164 from Margaret: Use different search URLs for tablet vs. non-tablet
  • Adding more 1x1s to my calendar
  • Playing hot-potato with WebRT and Marketplace groups
  • Finding ways to delay any review on patches from Brad

Ian Barlow

Last week

  • visiting SF

This week:

  • Work in progress
    • bug 877203 Trying out a new typeface for sans serif content: Clear Sans
      • Better design, more comfortable to read than Open Sans
      • Feedback welcome!
    • Mixed Content blocking
    • FHR – about:healthreport (Arun)
    • OUYA design refinement / future TV concepts (Zhenshuo)
    • Future tablet browsing concepts (Yuan)
    • Updated Settings UI
    • Partnership opportunities

Feature Focus

Firefox 22

Firefox 23

Firefox 24

Firefox 25

Round Table

  • Reflow-on-zoom UI setting?

User Advocacy

No Audible

Release Star Rating: 4.28

Beta Star Rating: 4.31

Release rating may pass Beta :/

No major issues on our radar for 21 or 22.

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