Platform/2013-04-09

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-04-09 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 98411
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• Engineering Vidyo Room / Warp Core / SFO-Boardroom / Tor Commons
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Actions

• dougt to find owner for top crash bug 836263
• Asa to post a couple of Windows 8 hardware options for dogfooding Firefox Metro

Notices/Schedule

?? bugs (?? bugs last week)	?? bugs (?? bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta 128 Trackers (non-security)

Key Issues

• WebAPI planned work (overholt)
  
  

Recent threads

• Request For Feedback: Ignoring signed add-ons in Firefox for Android (mfinkle)
• Proposal for using a multi-headed tree instead of inbound (updated) (kats) - (older thread for reference)
• Promises Proposal (dtownsend)
• About string removal in Aurora/Beta (mfinkle)
• W3C (dbaron)
  • Proposed W3C Charter: Web Performance Working Group
  • Proposed W3C Charter: Web and TV Interest Group
  • Proposed W3C Charters: groups within the XML activity

Products/Projects

Firefox OS

• For 1.0.1 (tef), 59+10 (10 are NPOTB) blocker bugs, with another 25 nominated.
• For 1.1 (leo), 114 blocker bugs, with another 54 nominated.

Firefox Mobile

Blog Shout Out

• Quit button removal, RSS Feeds, Reaching out to community, managing site settings and more: http://planet.firefox.com/mobile/

Usability, Responsiveness, and New Features

• Web Audio was enabled on Nightlies. This bumps our HTML5 score to 431
• WebRTC: Alder branch merged to central preff'd off. GCP is doing some initial manual testing on 2.3 and will need help with 2.2 testing soon

In Progress

• Add multi-thread support to profiler bug 734691
• bug 854421 - Throttle requestAnimationFrame from compositor
• Android xpcshell tests (very limited initial set) enabled on Cedar: https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Cedar
• Participation in Shumway work week
• Push API implementation bug 834033

Stability

• Firefox 20.0 release for Android has under 2 crashes per 100 ADI and around 25% startup crashes, both of which is lower than any release since we introduced the new "native" UI.

Games [1st Tuesday of Month]

• GDC success!
  • Unreal Engine 3 ported to the web using Emscripten/asm.js
    • Public demo releases soon
    • Current very low rez video has close to a quarter million views
  • Showing off the tech on the show floor at NVIDIA's booth
  • Lots of press interest, close to 200 articles worldwide
• Huge thank you to all the individuals who helped make it happen
  • lots of JS improvements
    • ~20% parsing perf improvement on the demo, which was about a 5-6% win on general parsermark parsing
    • significant memory reduction during parsing
  • Gamepad API, pointer lock in non-fullscreen got checked in, though gamepad will likely need another cycle on nightly
  • Lots of Web Audio improvements
• Next focus
  • Mobile
  • Supporting advanced porting efforts

Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]

Outreach

• Thank you to everyone who has responded to my request for help: Help Wanted: Firefox OS UA Detection
  • Additional fixes for avn.info.ve, lapatilla.com, laverdad.com, meridiano.com.ve
  • Confirmations that a number of additional fixes are coming
  • The best way to get sites fixed is with technical contacts, please share!
• Vimeo now works on Firefox mobile!
• Google Maps UI updated on Firefox for Android

Gecko

• Implementing generic versions of WebKitPoint (bug 850805), webkitConvertPointFromNodeToPage (bug 850806), and webkitConvertPointFromPageToNode (bug 850808)
• Do you like UA discussions (of course you do!)
  • bug 856699 Pick a UA string for fennec on Ouya
  • bug 850769 User Agent override including information regarding vendor/model about the device

Misc

• Req for Web Compatibility Engineer