devolution of cleartype rendering in Fx chrome

2013-10-11 Thread al_9x
This applies to xp without acceleration: 1. Fx 15: grayscale aa in the urlbar https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=828073 2. Fx 18: bad cleartype (gamma?) on selected menu items https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=828192 3. Fx 27: grayscale aa in menus https://bugzil

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:23:20PM -0400, Kyle Huey wrote: > Are you sure? I thought we killed pluggable decoders a while back. Indeed. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513681#c7 Mike ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/11/13 10:23 PM, Kyle Huey wrote: Are you sure? I thought we killed pluggable decoders a while back. Hmm. I didn't realize that. In that case, I'm not sure. :( -Boris ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Kyle Huey
Are you sure? I thought we killed pluggable decoders a while back. - Kyle On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 10/11/13 7:42 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> On 2013-10-11 1:08 PM, Ralph Giles wrote: >> >>> On 2013-10-10 12:28 PM, Steve Fink wrote: >>> >>> It seems like th

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/11/13 7:42 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: On 2013-10-11 1:08 PM, Ralph Giles wrote: On 2013-10-10 12:28 PM, Steve Fink wrote: It seems like the optimal efficiency vs surface exposure vs frequency of use tradeoff would be to do everything but the top formats (JPG, PNG, GIF?) in JS. That's wha

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2013-10-11 1:08 PM, Ralph Giles wrote: On 2013-10-10 12:28 PM, Steve Fink wrote: It seems like the optimal efficiency vs surface exposure vs frequency of use tradeoff would be to do everything but the top formats (JPG, PNG, GIF?) in JS. That's what we do today. We support those three image

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Ralph Giles
On 2013-10-10 12:28 PM, Steve Fink wrote: > It seems like the optimal efficiency vs surface exposure vs frequency > of use tradeoff would be to do everything but the top formats (JPG, > PNG, GIF?) in JS. That's what we do today. We support those three image formats with native code, and others

Re: Migrating to Win64 rev2 machines

2013-10-11 Thread John Hopkins
On 13-10-10 4:25 PM, John Hopkins wrote: > > Project branches are cutting over to the new win64-rev2 build machines. Project branch builds have run overnight on the new build machines and are looking good. We will continue migrating more branches next week. John > On 13-10-09 5:22 PM, John Hop

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Bobby Holley
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 2:47 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: > I'd be happy if we could progressively kill FileUtils.jsm and make > nsIFile [noscript]. Don't know if this qualifies as "platform feature", > though. Given that this is privileged functionality and not web-exposed, I don't think

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
I'd be happy to mentor someone to rewrite them using OS.File. On 10/11/13 3:28 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: > Both are heavily used in the js build system for gaia, fwiw. > > Axel > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lis

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/11/13 2:47 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: I'd be happy if we could progressively kill FileUtils.jsm and make nsIFile [noscript]. Don't know if this qualifies as "platform feature", though. Cheers, David Both are heavily used in the js build system for gaia, fwiw. Axel __

Re: unified shader for layer rendering

2013-10-11 Thread Benoit Jacob
2013/10/11 Nicholas Cameron > The advantage to me is that we have a single shader and avoid the > combinatorial explosion when we add more shaders for things like SVG > filters/CSS compositing. [...snip...] > > I have not recently been discussing new shaders, perhaps you are thinking > of msta

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
I'd be happy if we could progressively kill FileUtils.jsm and make nsIFile [noscript]. Don't know if this qualifies as "platform feature", though. Cheers, David ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listi

Re: Poll: What do you need in MXR/DXR?

2013-10-11 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Erik Rose wrote: > What features do you most use in MXR and DXR? String search. Then identifier search. In this order, because I don't trust the latter to recognize all identifiers. It would help to be able to trust. > What keeps you off DXR? Main reason I've st

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: > * XSLT (Chrome have already announced they will remove it: They said they'd remove H.264, too. I'm not a fan of XSLT, but we shouldn't be the first one to remove it. I once had to fix a bug, because XSLT was being used in Chrome Experiments

Re: Solving cross-origin script problem ("permission denied") when using custom protocol handler

2013-10-11 Thread Bobby Holley
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Matthew Gertner wrote: > On Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:23:44 PM UTC+2, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> Seems unlikely. > > Indeed, I completely misdiagnosed the issue. Upon further investigation it > turns out that the external script is trying to set a property on a c

Re: unified shader for layer rendering

2013-10-11 Thread Nicholas Cameron
On Friday, October 11, 2013 5:50:05 AM UTC+13, Benoit Girard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Andreas Gal wrote: > > > > > Rationale: > > > switching shaders tends to be expensive. > > > > > > > In my opinion this is the only argument for working on this at moment. > I think alm

Re: Solving cross-origin script problem ("permission denied") when using custom protocol handler

2013-10-11 Thread Matthew Gertner
On Thursday, October 10, 2013 7:23:44 PM UTC+2, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Seems unlikely. Indeed, I completely misdiagnosed the issue. Upon further investigation it turns out that the external script is trying to set a property on a chrome object and that __exposedProps__ does not allow this. So co