Platform/2014-Q1-Goals

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2014 General Goals

GFX

Items marked here with release 29 and 30 are part of the Q1 landings.

Layout

  • [ON TRACK] Start CSS Grid implementation
  • [ON TRACK] Fix multiple relative positioning issues (eg. bug 35168, bug 63895)
  • [ON TRACK] Ship display:box (bug 907396)
  • [ON TRACK] CSS scroll-snapping (bug 945584)
  • [ON TRACK] Ship input=number internationalization features
  • [ON TRACK] Migrate SVG to Moz2D (bug 703159)
  • [ON TRACK] Vertical text: Implement Layout frame migration to logical coordinates
  • [ON TRACK] Text Performance bugs ( https://etherpad.mozilla.org/textperfworkitems )
  • [ON TRACK] Improve Restyling Performance (bugs like bug 931668)
  • [ON TRACK] Ship Flexbox Pagination

Media

  • [MISSED] Enable MSE support for YouTube in Firefox 30 for Windows Vista, 7 and 8

DOM

  • [ON TRACK] New bindings for Window completed
  • [ON TRACK] ICC enabled
  • [DONE] NUWA enabled by default for b2g.
  • [ON TRACK] Xray wrapper support for at least one pure ES object (non-DOM object, specifically bug 975042) (bholley).
  • [DONE] fix url spec parser bugs (annevk)
  • [ON TRACK] fix encoding spec bugs (algorithm revamp, clarify layering based on streams) (annevk)
  • [DONE] xhr feature requests (response url, etc.) (annevk)
  • [DONE] Remove the overhead of off-the-main-thread parsing machinery from innerHTML parsing (bug 959150) (hsivonen)
  • [ON TRACK] implement <picture> (bug 870022) (johns)
  • [ON TRACK] initial support for windowed mode plugins in e10s mode (bug 923746) (johns)
  • [DONE] document.register (bug 856140) (wchen)
  • [DEFERRED] initial work (DOM part) on date picker form control (one or more of bug 888320's deps) with prototype UI (wchen)
    • Shadow DOM and Web Components took precedence here
  • [ON TRACK] fetch bits of service workers (part of bug 903441) (nsm)
  • [DEFERRED] get push running on desktop when Firefox is running (bug 857464) (nsm)
    • Deferred to wait for service workers to be introduced into push spec
  • [DONE] pref on promises (bug 918806) (nsm)
  • [CARRY OVER] cross-thread CC (bug 915097) (smaug)
  • [ON TRACK] tcp socket in workers (bug 916199) (jdm)
  • [WISHLIST] refactor how tokenizer and tree builder use buffers to reduce memory pressure crashes (hsivonen)

WebAPI

JS

  • [ON TRACK] 619558 - Generational GC
  • [ON TRACK] 837963 - ECMA-402 i18n API
  • [ON TRACK] 933949 - Optimize for Tom's Hardware's "Web Browser Grand Prix" benchmarks

Accessibility

  • Sandboxing support
    • [ON TRACK] Design accessibility roadmap (tbsaunde)
    • [DROPPED] Land cleaner separation of internal and platform accessibility layers. (tbsaunde)
    • add: [ON TRACK] Get a11y events working across process (tbsaunde)
  • FFOS:Gaia (eeejay,marcoz,yzen)
    • [ON TRACK] Make at least three of these core Gaia Apps accessible: dialer, contacts, sms, browser, marketplace
    • [DONE] Land initial screen reader user settings
    • [DONE] Design quick toggle for screen reader. [and landed]
    • [ON TRACK] Add basic Gaia UI accessibility tests for lockscreen, homescreen, settings, and any app we touch from now on
  • Windows UIA (Newer Accessibility API)
    • [ON TRACK] Land basic UIA text navigation implementation (surkov)

Perf

  • [DONE] Report main-thread I/O stacks to Telemetry, work with other teams to fix top offenders
  • [ON TRACK] Add a journalled storage format to Gecko for better performance & start converting users in the codebase, e.g. prefs
  • [ON TRACK] Session-store improvements: eliminate jank during data collection, improve startup time, reduce size of sessionstore.js files
  • [ON TRACK] Convert FHR to the new async way of shutting down
  • [ON TRACK] Reduce Firefox power usage when the browser is idle
  • [ON TRACK] Write a Talos test for power use
  • [ON TRACK] Write a Talos test for session storage performance
  • [DONE] Write a Talos test for the CustomizationUI animation in Australis
  • [ON TRACK] Add support for capturing profiles during Talos tests
  • [ON TRACK] Follow up on any Talos issues that fall out of enabling OMTC
  • [DEFERRED] Track & help with scrolling work
  • [ON TRACK] Procure slow netbooks to be used as reference hardware for performance testing
  • [ON TRACK] New UI for multi-threaded profiling in the Gecko Profiler
  • [ON TRACK] Serverside: Full support for self-serve telemetry data analysis (both ad hoc and scheduled)
  • [ON TRACK] Serverside: Instrument telemetry data-processing tasks with monitoring, alerts, and performance information. Stretch goal: include costing info too

Networking

  • [DONE] HTTP/2: implement draft-09 of HTTP/2 spec and continue participating in spec development. (hurley / mcmanus)
  • [MISSED] Turn on new HTTP cache in nightly (honza / michal)
  • [DONE] followups to seer to reduce CPU/disk usage (bug 945779, bug 948448, bug 948448) (hurley)
  • [ON TRACK] Support off-main send/recv from Websockets (for workers) (bug 925623) (sworkman)
  • [DONE] Investigate whether we can get network up/down link detection on all platforms [lame-network] bug 939318 (bagder/sworkman)
  • [AT RISK] B2G: Provide way to "set network offline" per app (bug 786419) (jduell)
  • [AT RISK] Add support for connecting to HTTP proxy over HTTPS (bug 378637) (mcmanus)
  • [DONE] turn off insecure v1 NTLM (bug 828183) (honza)
  • [DONE] Provide way to "Divert" a channel from child to parent (bug 975338) (sworkman/jduell)
  • [ON TRACK] Download manager sometimes thinks that incomplete downloads are complete; cannot resume/retry (bug 237623) (bagder)

Mobile

Security & Privacy

SecurityEngineering/2014/Q1Goals.

  • [DROPPED] Tracking protection: Extend nsChannelClassifier to block network loads from tracking domains based on a remote list. Dropped in favor of work in lightbeam; we will integrate changes needed for lightbeam after this quarter.
    • [ON TRACK] (mmc) Fix lightbeam, add blocking heuristics
  • [ON TRACK] Revocation: Land insanity, key pinning and name constraints (briansmith, cviecco
  • [ON TRACK] Sandboxing: set path to remote file access, begin to remove OPEN syscall from sandbox on linux/b2g and equivalent on windows. (bbondy, kang, sid, ckerschb)
  • [ON TRACK] Perf/CSP: CSP rewrite in C++ for perf on B2G and all platforms (ckerschb, grobinson)

Release Engineering

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