Re: PSA: IDL file changes may now be rejected by server-side hook

2015-02-20 Thread Ryan VanderMeulen
On 2/20/2015 7:36 PM, Eric Shepherd wrote: Is there any way we could add something that would cause a notification to go out to the MDN writing team if IDL is changed? That could have enormous repercussions on our ability to keep up with doc updates for XPCOM interfaces. Eric Shepherd Sr. Tec

Re: PSA: IDL file changes may now be rejected by server-side hook

2015-02-20 Thread Ryan VanderMeulen
On 2/20/2015 7:36 PM, Eric Shepherd wrote: Is there any way we could add something that would cause a notification to go out to the MDN writing team if IDL is changed? That could have enormous repercussions on our ability to keep up with doc updates for XPCOM interfaces. Eric Shepherd Sr. Tec

Re: PSA: IDL file changes may now be rejected by server-side hook

2015-02-20 Thread Eric Shepherd
Is there any way we could add something that would cause a notification to go out to the MDN writing team if IDL is changed? That could have enormous repercussions on our ability to keep up with doc updates for XPCOM interfaces. Eric Shepherd Sr. Technical Writer Mozilla(https://mozilla.org/)

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Ms2ger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/2015 09:12 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Julien Wajsberg > wrote: >> Le 20/02/2015 04:25, Robert O'Callahan a écrit : >>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long >>> wrote: >>> >>> Personally I think what w

Re: PSA: IDL file changes may now be rejected by server-side hook

2015-02-20 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
Hooray! Thank you. Nick On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Birunthan Mohanathas wrote: > Greetings, > > If your commit modifies an IDL interface (think `[...] interface Foo > {};`), you will now have to either > > 1) Bump the corresponding interface UUID. > Use e.g. `./mach update-uuids nsISo

RFC: what's the correct behavior for Visual Studio projects and unified builds?

2015-02-20 Thread Nathan Froyd
Hi all, When discussing the recent transition to only supporting unified builds, some people were apparently concerned about how this would affect Visual Studio projects (i.e. Intellisense), since the Visual Studio project files generated via |mach build-backend| only listed the individual source

PSA: IDL file changes may now be rejected by server-side hook

2015-02-20 Thread Birunthan Mohanathas
Greetings, If your commit modifies an IDL interface (think `[...] interface Foo {};`), you will now have to either 1) Bump the corresponding interface UUID. Use e.g. `./mach update-uuids nsISomething` to bump the UUID of nsISomething and all its descendant interfaces. or 2) Include 'IGN

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Julien Wajsberg wrote: > Le 20/02/2015 04:25, Robert O'Callahan a écrit : >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long wrote: >> >> Personally I think what we *really* need to be working on is making >> all of the DOM APIs asynchronous. That's what Servo

fyi, temporary degraded performance in syncing to gecko-dev.git

2015-02-20 Thread Hal Wine
Status: gecko-dev.git updating normally at present. tl;dr: there were some significant conversion delays Friday morning PT (approx 0500-1040PT). Service has been restored. One additional (much shorter) delay will be needed for final fix,

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-20 Thread axel
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 6:34:07 PM UTC+1, Tom Tromey wrote: > > "Axel" == axel-4eJtQOnFJqFBDgjK7y7TUQ > > writes: > > Axel> We can only do this in the compiler if we actually compiled each > Axel> localized version by itself. > > Yes, I see what you mean. > > Axel> The other "

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Axel" == axel-4eJtQOnFJqFBDgjK7y7TUQ > writes: Axel> We can only do this in the compiler if we actually compiled each Axel> localized version by itself. Yes, I see what you mean. Axel> The other "easy" way to reduce impact here is to reduce the use of Axel> nsTextFormatter, or cr

Re: Intent to Ship: Fetch API

2015-02-20 Thread Benjamin Kelly
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:21 AM, James Graham wrote: > On 18/02/15 17:31, nsm.nik...@gmail.com wrote: > It's still disappointing that we are implementing greenfield > web technologies with such an ad-hoc approach to obtaining > interoperability. This seems like a clear case where we could have

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Julien Wajsberg
Le 20/02/2015 04:25, Robert O'Callahan a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:02 PM, James Long wrote: > > Personally I think what we *really* need to be working on is making > all of the DOM APIs asynchronous. That's what Servo needs anyway. > That's a step in the right direction for #

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread James Long
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:11 PM, James Long wrote: >> Note however that people in the native app world believe that it's >> very important that whatever applies the animations is run on the same >> thread that handles input. Otherwise it's v

Intent to ship: Meta Referrer

2015-02-20 Thread sstamm
Feature Summary: While the HTTP Referer header can be suppressed for links with the noreferrer link type, authors might wish to control its content more directly for a number of reasons: * Privacy - stripping the path or blocking referrer entirely on outbound links * Efficiency - referrer can be

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-20 Thread axel
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 12:57:44 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, at 06:32 AM, a...@mozilla.com wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:33:42 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > >

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-20 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, at 06:32 AM, a...@mozilla.com wrote: > On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:33:42 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to write tests to validate my assumptions around what's an error > > > and

Re: UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Christopher Lord
It's great to see this being discussed! Personally, I'd like to see all three of these, and I think they have quite particular use-cases. #2 is my least favourite, however, and I'll discuss this below. I'd like to see #1 implemented first for two reasons; 1- I know this is easy to do given our pla

Re: UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > One good thing about UIWorkers is extensibility. We can imagine providing > touch input coordinates to UIWorkers to enable 60fps object dragging (with > arbitrary effects like resistance, snapping, etc). UIWorkers could render > to canvas

Re: [dev-servo] UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:11 PM, James Long wrote: > Note however that people in the native app world believe that it's > very important that whatever applies the animations is run on the same > thread that handles input. Otherwise it's very easy for animations to > get out-of-sync. Does that mea

Re: UI Workers

2015-02-20 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > Should UIWorkers have access to the full Worker API? It seems like there's > no reason not to give them that. There's two use-cases that I think argues against that. First off I'd like to enable saving a webpage for later viewing. Right