Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-31 Thread Robert Kaiser
Paolo Amadini schrieb: On 8/30/2014 2:18 PM, Philip Chee wrote: SeaMonkey uses Form History: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f69c9019e0b0 Thanks for the reference! I'll keep in mind that these Form History interfaces are used by SeaMonkey as well. I think that any application doing

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-31 Thread Paolo Amadini
On 8/30/2014 2:18 PM, Philip Chee wrote: > SeaMonkey uses Form History: > http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f69c9019e0b0 Thanks for the reference! I'll keep in mind that these Form History interfaces are used by SeaMonkey as well. From what I see in the patch above, it seems that this wa

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-30 Thread Philip Chee
On 15/08/2014 19:55, Paolo Amadini wrote: > In fact, a search on the mozilla-central [2] and comm-central [3] > repositories shows that this shared autocomplete code is only used on > Desktop by Firefox and Thunderbird, while SeaMonkey uses the older XPFE > autocomplete. Other Toolkit components l

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-28 Thread Paolo Amadini
On 8/27/2014 9:50 PM, Neil wrote: >> The first changes to autocomplete will land in the next few weeks. >> > So do you have some bug numbers you can quote us? You may want to follow bug 951624 at the moment, though the first interface changes might appear in newly filed dependent bugs. Probably, n

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-27 Thread Neil
Paolo Amadini wrote: The first changes to autocomplete will land in the next few weeks. So do you have some bug numbers you can quote us? -- Warning: May contain traces of nuts. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-27 Thread Paolo Amadini
On 8/25/2014 12:56 PM, Mark Banner wrote: > So if I understand you right, we could switch to UnifiedComplete if we > want to maintain multiple search sources (whilst using toolkit code)? UnifiedComplete.js is the Places component that allowed us to replace the autocompletesearch="urlinline history

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-25 Thread Mark Banner
On 15/08/2014 12:55, Paolo Amadini wrote: The major change would be the removal of the multiple search sources from the autocomplete code, since this feature is used heavily by Thunderbird. For Firefox, we already developed the UnifiedComplete component that replaces the multiple searches in the

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-15 Thread Neil
Paolo Amadini wrote: On 8/15/2014 3:27 PM, Neil wrote: *SeaMonkey's search bar uses toolkit's autocomplete widget but SeaMonkey's popup. You're saying that it manually binds to Toolkit's autocomplete.xml? Indeed, http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/suite/common/search/search.

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-15 Thread Paolo Amadini
On 8/15/2014 3:27 PM, Neil wrote: >> It soon became apparent that most of the autocomplete code was >> designed for synchronous operation >> > Synchronous operation of what? Autocomplete works like this: You ask for > some results; some time later, you get some results. How could that be > less syn

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-15 Thread Neil
Paolo Amadini wrote: It soon became apparent that most of the autocomplete code was designed for synchronous operation Synchronous operation of what? Autocomplete works like this: You ask for some results; some time later, you get some results. How could that be less synchronous? In fact,

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-15 Thread Wayne
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Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-15 Thread Wayne
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Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-15 Thread Paolo Amadini
As part of a renewed effort to improve the user experience of location bar searches in Firefox, we have been working on the shared code handling search-as-you-type in textboxes [1], which is located in Toolkit. *Current issues* It soon became apparent that most of the autocomplete code was design