Platform/2013-Q4-Goals

Platform

2013 General Goals

1. Games/Media/Social/Location
2. Performance
3. Development velocity/productivity
4. Firefox OS
5. Firefox Desktop
6. Firefox Android
7. Overall Software Quality

GFX

Goals are work in progress

These are not all going to be prioritized for the quarter, but this is the list from which we are likely to select

• [ON TRACK] B2G & Fennec performance (animation, pan/zoom, canvas, WebGL)
• [ON TRACK] APZC on B2G apps
• [ON TRACK] Metro
• [ON TRACK] E10S
• [ON TRACK] Australis TART
• [ON TRACK] The GFX team will resolve all actionable security bugs within six weeks of their entering our components and receiving sec-high or sec-critical designation. [7] (All trains)

DOM

• [ON TRACK] Norway worker work (bug 916204) (dougt / khuey / nikhil)
• [ON TRACK] E10s and B2g work related to message manager and event handling (olli)
• [ON TRACK] add some helper code to deal with cross-thread cycles, (bug 915097 and others) (olli)
• [ON TRACK] fix AppShell's favorPerfMode (bug 822096 and others )(olli)
• [ON TRACK] Update document.register to latest spec revision (bug 856140) (blake / wchen)
• [ON TRACK] Implement ShadowRoot event retargeting algorithm (bug 887541) (blake / wchen)
• [ON TRACK] ShadowRoot <shadow> element (bug 887538) (blake / wchen)
• [ON TRACK] Implement HTML imports (bug 877072) (blake / wchen)
• [ON TRACK] Finalize the patch for per-document,docshell,window event queue (olli)
• [ON TRACK] Update document.register to latest spec revision (bug 856140) (blake / wchen)
• [ON TRACK] Service Workers (nikhil)
• [ON TRACK] Push payload (nikhil)

WebAPI

• [ON TRACK] Land MessagePort for workers (bug 911972) and main-thread (bug 677638) on m-c (baku)
• [ON TRACK] Add security features to DataStore (verify principal (bug 916091), UX for user permission (bug TBD)) (baku)
• [ON TRACK] Base XMLHttpRequest on Fetch (fix everything in Fetch required for that) (annevk)
• [ON TRACK] Land promises in ES6 (help out Domenic where needed) (annevk)
• [ON TRACK] Finalize zip URL design (annevk)
• [ON TRACK] Continue work on manifest / "installable apps" (marcosc)
• [ON TRACK] Ensure we have someone to implement srcset (marcosc)
• [ON TRACK] Expression indexes for indexedDB (bent)
• [ON TRACK] Locale-aware sorting for indexedDB (ehsan? bent?)
• [ON TRACK] Mechanism to delay the DOMContentLoaded event, enables a library that could perhaps replace SimpleStorage (bent)
• [ON TRACK] Finish indexedDB error message improvements (bent, currently in progress)
• [ON TRACK] Land low-hanging indexedDB features (bent, currently in progress)
• [ON TRACK] Adjust implementation, review and land sync IDB in workers (janv)
• [ON TRACK] Get agreement with other browser vendors on temporary/permanent IDB syntax (janv)

Accessibility

FFOS

• Make core gaia apps/functionality accessible to end users.
  • [ON TRACK] dialer, contacts, sms, browser, marketplace, settings, clock
  • [ON TRACK] stretch: email, calendar
• [ON TRACK] Create user-facing UI for screenreader settings.
• [ON TRACK] Harmonize speech synthesis audio with b2g audio channels
• AccessFu improvements
  • [ON TRACK] context actions (swipe up and down)
  • [ON TRACK] improved support for mutating content
  • [ON TRACK] performance work

Core Platform

• [ON TRACK] Stability: to include crashes and new asserts. Tracking bug 888531.
• [ON TRACK] Stability: investigate instantiation of a11y for other test suites and make them pass.
• [ON TRACK] Resolve all actionable sec-moderate or higher a11y bugs within six weeks of their sec-rating.
• [ON TRACK] Hot AT vendor fixes. Tacking bug 887794

Networking

• [ON TRACK] Turn on new HTTP cache in nightly (honza / michal)
• [ON TRACK] HTTP/2: implement draft-06; contribute internet draft for http:// over TLS; test coverage (hurley / mcmanus)
• [ON TRACK] Design docs and go/no go decision on Carpe Net proposal (mcmanus / hurley)
• [ON TRACK] "lame-network": use TCP keepalive to time out stale connections (bug 444328), timeout 1/2 open connections (need to file bug) (sworkman)
• [ON TRACK] B2G: Provide way to "set network offline" per app (bug 786419) (jduell)
• [ON TRACK] e10s sandboxing: remote the file:// protocol (bug 922481) (jduell / sworkman)
• [ON TRACK] make e10s FTP work with HTTP proxies (bug 915024) (jduell)

Security

ZOMG!1!! Security Engineering's draft Q4 goals here