MemShrink meeting today: 12/11/2012 @ 2:00pm PST

2012-12-11 Thread Jet Villegas
This week's MemShrink meeting will be brought to you by Dark Matter: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink/DMD The wiki page for this meeting is at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink Agenda: * 64-bit Windows Builds Update * Prioritize unprioritized MemShrink bugs. * Disc

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-11 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/11/12 7:18 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:37 AM, John Daggett wrote: Fonts are loaded when used so font loading won't start until the contents using a particular font are laid out. That seems like a problem for JS-driven display. It's also the only way to avoid load

Snappy Meeting, Thurs Dec 13, 11am PT (new Vidyo room)

2012-12-11 Thread Lawrence Mandel
The Snappy meeting is held bi-weekly to discuss issues with Firefox responsiveness and the various responsiveness initiatives that are underway. This week is a Snappy meeting ON week. Please add your items and status to the agenda before the meeting. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/snappy Dial-in:

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-11 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 11/12/12 12:18, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:37 AM, John Daggett wrote: Fonts are loaded when used so font loading won't start until the contents using a particular font are laid out. That seems like a problem for JS-driven display. A big problem in the canvas case and at

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-11 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:37 AM, John Daggett wrote: > Fonts are loaded when used so font loading won't start until the > contents using a particular font are laid out. That seems like a problem for JS-driven display. A big problem in the canvas case and at least an annoyance when a JS program dri

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-11 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 11/12/12 10:51, Neil wrote: Neil wrote: Jonathan Kew wrote: You shouldn't normally see a flash of fallback text unless the font is particularly slow to load; the text should be invisible until the font is available. We aim to hide the text until the font is ready, unless it takes more than

Re: Synchronous loading of data: URLs

2012-12-11 Thread Neil
Neil wrote: Jonathan Kew wrote: You shouldn't normally see a flash of fallback text unless the font is particularly slow to load; the text should be invisible until the font is available. We aim to hide the text until the font is ready, unless it takes more than a few seconds to load. (The t

Re: Proposal: Not shipping prefixed APIs on the release channel

2012-12-11 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Randell Jesup wrote: > I'm ok with it, Great! > but I think it may be insufficient to avoid problems. It turned out to be harder to get agreement on the part whose purpose was to avoid problems: the part about not shipping experimental stuff on the release chann