Re: Gecko shutdown (London session)

2016-06-30 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
tered with AsyncShutdown had finished shutting down, we could call _exit(0). Cheers, David On 30/06/16 17:41, Aaron Klotz wrote: > Did the now-defunct exit(0) project ever come up in this discussion? > > See bugs 662444 and 826143. This was a perf team project back in the > Snap

Proposed W3C Charter: CSS Working Group

2016-08-29 Thread L. David Baron
, September 2. Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla

Re: Reorganization of Firefox-UI tests in mozilla-central

2016-09-04 Thread L. David Baron
s, a problem that has also occurred on other tests, tracked in different bugs). This encourages ignoring the bugs and just looking at orangefactor for what's interesting/relevant. 2. spreading out a single problem across >100 bugs [1] leads to the severity of that problem being ignor

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: CSS Working Group

2016-09-07 Thread L. David Baron
On Monday 2016-08-29 17:21 -0700, L. David Baron wrote: > The W3C is proposing a revised charter for: > > Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group > https://www.w3.org/Style/2016/css-2016.html > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2016Aug/.html >

Proposed W3C Charter: Web Platform Working Group

2016-09-28 Thread L. David Baron
s or objections through this Friday, September 30. Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Platform Working Group

2016-09-29 Thread L. David Baron
On Thursday 2016-09-29 10:42 +0200, Ms2ger wrote: > On 29/09/16 03:02, L. David Baron wrote: > > The W3C is proposing a revised charter for: > > > > Web Platform Working Group (formerly Web Applications WG & HTML WG) > > https://www.w3.org/2016/08/web-platform

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Platform Working Group

2016-09-30 Thread L. David Baron
ncubation to be in their charter scope. Or are these things that are just starting out rather than things that have been in progress for a while? (That seems unlikely, since I've been hearing about some of them for quite a while.) -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http:

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Platform Working Group

2016-09-30 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2016-09-30 14:02 -0700, Tantek Γ‡elik wrote: > Also, just found this in the charter: > announcement > Not really acceptable. I think it should link to the same URL as the other "(announcement)" link. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron

W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML 5.1

2016-10-10 Thread L. David Baron
e at this stage.) Note that this specification is somewhat controversial for various reasons, mainly related to the forking of the specification from the WHATWG copy, the quality of the work done on it since the fork, and some of the particular modifications that have been made since that fork. -Da

W3C Proposed Recommendation: WebIDL Level 1

2016-10-10 Thread L. David Baron
the first time at this stage.) I'd note that Mozillians have been very involved in editing the specification, but I'm not entirely sure of our level of involvement in stabilizing the "release branch" to be a Level 1 recommendation. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron

Proposed W3C Charter: Web of Things Working Group

2016-10-10 Thread L. David Baron
for, or whether this is more of a (set of?) research projects. W3C has an existing Interest Group (not a Working Group, so not designed to write Recommendation-track specifications) in this area: https://www.w3.org/WoT/IG/ . -David -- π„ž L. David Baron ht

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: WebIDL Level 1

2016-10-10 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2016-10-11 07:07 +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 October 2016, L. David Baron wrote: > > > I'd note that Mozillians have been very involved in editing the > > specification, but I'm not entirely sure of our level of involvement > >

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: WebIDL Level 1

2016-10-11 Thread L. David Baron
Recommendation every so often so that it's unambiguous that they're covered by the W3C's patent policy. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I

Re: Intent to ship: css multi-column properties (unprefixed)

2016-10-13 Thread L. David Baron
The use cases for column-span that I've seen have also felt like workarounds for lack of proper section markup. If developers want a column layout for their sections, they should specify that. -David > On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 1:28:00 AM UTC-4, Mike Taylor wrote: > > On

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML 5.1

2016-10-13 Thread L. David Baron
-11 https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/507 -David > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:46 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > > A W3C Proposed Recommendation is available for the membership of W3C > > (including Mozilla) to vote on, before it proceeds to the final > > stage of being a W3C Rec

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: HTML 5.1

2016-10-17 Thread L. David Baron
The comments submitted on HTML 5.1 are archived at: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2016Oct/0003.html -David On Thursday 2016-10-13 17:35 -0700, Tantek Γ‡elik wrote: > For the record, I have reviewed the HTML5.1 changes: > > https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/PR-html51

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web of Things Working Group

2016-10-17 Thread L. David Baron
The comments I submitted on the WoT charter are archived at: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2016Oct/0004.html -David On Friday 2016-10-14 15:03 +0100, Benjamin Francis wrote: > Hi David, > > We collected some feedback in a document > <https://docs.google

Proposed W3C Charter: Second Screen Working Group

2016-10-17 Thread L. David Baron
. Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. Mozilla does have participants in this group: https://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=74168&public=1&order=org#_MozillaFound

Proposed W3C Charter: Audio Working Group

2016-10-17 Thread L. David Baron
/dbwg/details?group=46884&public=1&order=org#_MozillaFoundation -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was wal

Proposed W3C Charter: Automotive Working Group

2016-10-17 Thread L. David Baron
illa being involved in the discussions that led to this charter. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was wallin

W3C Proposed Recommendation: Media Source Extensions (MSE)

2016-10-17 Thread L. David Baron
es to make comments, so it's somewhat bad form to bring up fundamental issues for the first time at this stage.) (This is something we implement in Gecko, although I'm not sure if we implement everything in the spec, or how involved Mozilla folks have been in the spec process.) -Davi

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Second Screen Working Group

2016-10-25 Thread L. David Baron
I've submitted a response in support of the charter, without comments. -David On Monday 2016-10-24 10:47 +0800, Shih-Chiang Chien wrote: > Support revised charter. > > The revised charter creates some flexibility for us to promote Flyweb as a > new feature in Presentation API L

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Audio Working Group

2016-10-26 Thread L. David Baron
perlink > more specifically as well. > > * Or, if no such community group exists, make it clearer that it's > a hypothetical community group. (and record it as a support-with-optional-changes). -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozill

W3C Proposed Recommendation: Webmention

2016-11-03 Thread L. David Baron
ntal issues for the first time at this stage.) -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out,

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Automotive Working Group

2016-11-04 Thread L. David Baron
e for comments is end of Monday, US Eastern Time.) -David We're concerned enough about the security and privacy aspects of this charter and the associated work that we believe this effort is not currently ready to begin development on the Recommendation track. We have a number of concerns

Proposed W3C Charter: Accessibility Guidelines Working Group

2016-11-04 Thread L. David Baron
. Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. This group is a proposed reformulation of the current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) working group. -David -- π„ž L. David

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Automotive Working Group

2016-11-04 Thread L. David Baron
OK, here's a reformulation that takes a somewhat stronger position (mainly by checking the other box, and adding the paragraph at the end). -David [X] opposes this Charter and requests that this group not be created [Formal Objection] (your details below). We're concerned en

W3C Proposed Recommendation: CSP2 (Content Security Policy 2)

2016-11-08 Thread L. David Baron
in support or formally object to something, please say so in this thread. (I'd note, however, that there have been many previous opportunities to make comments, so it's somewhat bad form to bring up fundamental issues for the first time at this stage.) -David --

Re: Intent to implement: CSS {background,mask}-repeat-{x/y} properties

2016-11-24 Thread L. David Baron
gnized" status mean, and how does it differ from "Shipped"? -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was w

Re: Intent to implement: CSS {background,mask}-repeat-{x/y} properties

2016-11-24 Thread L. David Baron
Web compatibility risk. If you're analyzing that risk, it doesn't matter what developer tools do. What matters is whether the presence of the properties in Web content does something that we also need to do if we want the content to behave in the same way. I can't tell from you

Proposed W3C Charter: Web of Things Working Group

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I&

Proposed W3C Charter: SVG Working Group

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I&

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web of Things Working Group

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2016-12-09 18:12 -1000, L. David Baron wrote: > The W3C is proposing a new charter for: Please ignore this thread, sorry. I resent the SVG charter with a correct subject line. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozi

Proposed W3C Charter: Tracking Protection Working Group

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
. Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozill

Proposed W3C Charter: SVG Working Group

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
. Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozill

Proposed W3C Charter: Web Security Interest Group

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
. Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozill

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: SVG Working Group

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2016-12-09 18:15 -1000, L. David Baron wrote: > The W3C is proposing a revised charter for: > > Web Security Interest Group > https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/websec-ig.html > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2016Nov/0009.html OK, please a

Proposed W3C Charter: Verifiable Claims Working Group

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
this thread if you think there's something we should say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should support or oppose it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozill

W3C Candidate Recommendation: Performance Timeline Level 2

2016-12-09 Thread L. David Baron
ation. (I'd note, however, that there have been previous opportunities to make comments, so it's somewhat bad form to bring up fundamental issues for the first time at this stage, although that's a little less true now that the review is taking place against a CR rather than a PR.) -Davi

Re: Intent to ship: CSS Mask Image

2016-12-15 Thread L. David Baron
owdependencytree.cgi?id=1312613&maxdepth=1&hide_resolved=0 I'm in support of shipping this work, assuming that the performance concerns that delayed it have been addressed. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla

Re: Firefox Behaving Improperly to Standard

2016-12-20 Thread L. David Baron
usual poorly-written spec language in CSS level 2, and it's overridden by the more specific language that actually says how overflow handling should work. > 4) overflow:auto is ignored both in interpretation and scrollbar implications No idea what you mean by this. But I'm pretty

Re: Intent to implement and ship: CSS display:flow-root

2016-12-21 Thread L. David Baron
as part of the implementation > > Security & Privacy Concerns: none Sounds good to me, except that I think it's worth explicitly raising on www-style that we're planning to ship this, since the spec for it isn't yet in (or near) CR. (The bug says th

Re: Intent to Implement: adding vector effects non-scaling-size, non-rotation and fixed-position to SVG

2016-12-27 Thread L. David Baron
ced via image, when used as a background-image or border-image, etc.? -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I wa

Re: Intent to Implement CSS Box Alignment on block containers

2016-12-28 Thread L. David Baron
fact that they *don't* work on blocks. I'm happy to see this happen sooner rather than later, to reduce this risk. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I buil

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Verifiable Claims Working Group

2016-12-28 Thread L. David Baron
Here's an attempt to write up comments to submit on this charter. I'm not sure I understood ekr's reply to mt, though. So corrections and clarifications are certainly welcome. Sorry for the delay circling back to this. -David We don't think the W3C should be putt

5 W3C Candidate Recommendations from Social Web WG

2016-12-28 Thread L. David Baron
first time at this stage, although that's a little less true now that the review is taking place against a CR rather than a PR.) I suspect Tantek is in support given that he's a co-chair of the working group. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.or

W3C Candidate Recommendation: Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0

2016-12-28 Thread L. David Baron
x27;d note, however, that there have been previous opportunities to make comments, so it's somewhat bad form to bring up fundamental issues for the first time at this stage, although that's a little less true now that the review is taking place against a CR rather than a PR.) -David --

6 W3C Candidate Recommendations on XPath and XQuery

2016-12-28 Thread L. David Baron
nst a CR rather than a PR.) However, I'd note that I'm inclined to abstain from this review. This is a set of XML-related work that's happening at W3C and isn't particularly related to the browser world these days. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron h

W3C Proposed Recommendation: Web Cryptography API

2016-12-28 Thread L. David Baron
r from somebody knowledgable about the spec and our implementation before just doing that. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

W3C Proposed Recommendation: Data on the Web Best Practices

2016-12-28 Thread L. David Baron
s, so it's somewhat bad form to bring up fundamental issues for the first time at this stage.) My inclination is to abstain from this review, but could probably be convinced to send other forms of supportive response. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Verifiable Claims Working Group

2016-12-28 Thread L. David Baron
OK, I sent the response far enough before the deadline (which is Sunday January 15) that other W3C members may have a chance to see it before the deadline: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2016Dec/0010.html -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http

Re: GTest has landed

2013-02-25 Thread L. David Baron
are for |make check| tests? They should be, and the fewer tests you currently have, the easier it is to make them fatal. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 __

Re: Turning off window.Components for the web

2013-03-05 Thread L. David Baron
mplementations, influencing other implementations through standards processes, and influencing other implementations in other ways. That said, it seems like it may be worth pushing on the cases we know about before shipping to a beta/release audience. It also might be worth removing Co

Re: Bug 851818 - Modernizing the Enter Bug Entry Page in Bugzilla

2013-03-18 Thread L. David Baron
g in Firefox::General. And I think appropriate guiding for Web developers filing bugs against the rendering engine is an important case. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 ___

Re: Bug 851818 - Modernizing the Enter Bug Entry Page in Bugzilla

2013-03-18 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2013-03-19 12:19 +0800, Byron Jones wrote: > L. David Baron wrote: > >I'd actually like to see Core higher on the list for the > >no-canconfirm case. I think it's common for reasonably > >well-informed Web developers (who would have been able to choose a

Re: Running Windows 8 tests visibly on mozilla-central, mozilla-inbound and try

2013-03-19 Thread L. David Baron
s also dev-planning rather than dev-platform? -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozill

Re: Proposal for using a multi-headed tree instead of inbound

2013-04-03 Thread L. David Baron
se many builds and tests get merged on inbound when things are behind. (I also don't feel like we need a full build/test run for every push, so it feels like unnecessary use of resources to me.) -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozil

Proposed W3C Charter: Web Performance Working Group

2013-04-04 Thread L. David Baron
. Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 ___ dev-platform mailing lis

Proposed W3C Charters: groups within the XML activity

2013-04-04 Thread L. David Baron
d say. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinf

Proposed W3C Charter: Web and TV Interest Group

2013-04-04 Thread L. David Baron
reply to this thread if you think there's something we should say. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-pla

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web and TV Interest Group

2013-04-05 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2013-04-05 09:45 -0400, David Humphrey wrote: > On 13-04-04 5:24 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > >W3C is proposing a revised charter for the Web and TV Interest > >For more details, see: > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2013Mar/0008.html > &g

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Performance Working Group

2013-04-05 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2013-04-05 12:19 +0100, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:20 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > > W3C is proposing a revised charter for the Web Performance Working > > Group. For more details, see: > > http://www.w3.org/2013/01/webperf.html > > h

W3C Proposed Recommendation: Web Storage

2013-04-22 Thread L. David Baron
;s somewhat bad form to bring up fundamental issues for the first time at this stage.) -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 ___ dev-platf

Re: Proposal for an inbound2 branch

2013-05-01 Thread L. David Baron
ng bookmarks; the way of checking that I'm pushing the right thing is to run "hg out" before "hg push" (as one should always do... and as I don't know how to do in git). -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla

Re: Storage in Gecko

2013-05-10 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
t; how much of a perf problem those large prefs tend to be, actually. > > Robert Kaiser > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo

Re: PSA: inbound/central/birch closed

2013-05-11 Thread L. David Baron
cgi?id=863732 in https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/9ec0ad6f7e09 , though I don't know the bad changeset on the other half. I've reopened the trees. -David > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > > > The latest merge from m-c to inboun

Re: OS.File and shutdown

2013-05-13 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
oughly tested yet. > Another question: are the write tasks queued and completed in order, or can > two writeAtomic calls to the same file race each other and the 2nd call > finish first (only to have the 1st call finish and write older data) All tasks to OS.File are queued and completed

Re: OS.File and shutdown

2013-05-14 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 5/13/13 10:20 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: > On 5/10/13 10:45 PM, Felipe Gomes wrote: >> Hi, does OS.File guarantees that write tasks that have started will be >> completed if a shutdown occurs? My use case is for writeAtomic but I'm >> interested about the

Re: OS.File and shutdown

2013-05-15 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
and it > varies case by case (or anything goes that works and is early enough..) profile-before-change should be good. Any OS.File call posted before xpcom-shutdown will be completed before we exit Firefox. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller

Re: Ordering shutdown observers?

2013-05-15 Thread L. David Baron
many cases that's more trouble than it's worth; there are many things we know we'll need during startup, and it's not worth the extra overhead of checking every time if we've already called getService. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaro

Re: Storage in Gecko

2013-05-16 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 5/16/13 2:26 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > David Rajchenbach-Teller schrieb: >> I'd even go as far as limiting it to 16kb. >> (possibly with a transition phase during which going above 16kb only >> prints warnings) > > I think most of us agree, but the problem is t

Re: Ordering shutdown observers?

2013-05-16 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
er, I believe that we need to make dependencies somewhat explicit, otherwise we will at some point end up with unsatisfiable implicit dependencies and we will need large refactorings to get around these. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla _

[RFC] Modules for workers

2013-05-18 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
urce://gre/modules/commonjs/ I would like to place worker modules in resource://gre/modules/workers/ Any comments? Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla

[Advance warning] Session Restore is changing, will break add-ons

2013-05-21 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
that we are about to break your add-on, please inform us asap, so that we can work out a solution. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: HTML Working Group

2013-05-21 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2013-02-08 14:37 -0800, L. David Baron wrote: > W3C is proposing a revised charter for the HTML Working Group. > For more details, see: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2013Feb/0009.html > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/charter/2012/ > > Mozilla has

Re: [Advance warning] Session Restore is changing, will break add-ons

2013-05-22 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
changes, though, having a kill switch pretty much means forking the code of Session Restore into an "old" session restore and a new one. Do we have a policy on these things? Cheers, David On 5/22/13 5:16 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Do we have a kill switch for the new stuff (a build

Re: [Advance warning] Session Restore is changing, will break add-ons

2013-05-22 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
single file, it might make sense to just backout the changes if necessary. Cheers, David On 5/22/13 3:35 PM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: > Policy[1] is that whenever something lands on central, it is the > developer's responsibility to provide for the ability to turn it off. > Usual

Re: [RFC] Modules for workers

2013-05-22 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
It should be possible to share some modules between Jetpack and Workers, for Jetpack modules that do not depend on DOM or XPCOM and Worker modules that do not depend on Worker-only code. This is not an immediate goal, but it is considered a-would-be-nice-to-have. Cheers, David On 5/20/13 8:53

Re: [Advance warning] Session Restore is changing, will break add-ons

2013-05-23 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Expect the complicated patch to become more complicated :) Cheers, David > - Tim -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: [RFC] Modules for workers

2013-05-24 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Well, if we do not want the main thread to collapse under its weight, we have to move code off the main thread and to encourage add-ons to do likewise. I'm not sure I see an alternative here. Cheers, David On 5/24/13 1:12 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > My main concern is that Workers cr

Re: [RFC] Modules for workers

2013-05-28 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Weren't we moving addons into separate processes anyway? This has been discussed, but I haven't heard from this since in ages. > / Jonas -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla ___ dev-platform mailing list

Re: Tree Closure for infrastructure work, Saturday June 1 from 1400 PDT to 2000 PDT

2013-05-29 Thread L. David Baron
aurora, mozilla-beta) to ensure their pushes are green, at least the trees that people are required to watch should be closed enough time in advance of things going down so that this doesn't happen (as for all downtimes like this). -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http:/

Re: Sandboxed, off-screen pages for thumbnail capture

2013-06-18 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
g the main thread. It seems possible, but this requires synchronization with the Gfx team. Best regards, David ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Sandboxed, off-screen pages for thumbnail capture

2013-06-18 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 6/18/13 3:01 PM, Gavin Sharp wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:10 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller > wrote: >> If I understand correctly, we are doubling both network and disk >> activity (possibly CPU activity, too) for this purpose. Performance- and >> battery-wise, tha

Re: Making proposal for API exposure official

2013-06-24 Thread L. David Baron
at just needs to be written by an author into an .htaccess file or python script.) But I'm not sure if that's the answer you were thinking of. (Also, I hope to send more comments on the proposal soon.) -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://db

Re: Code coverage take 2, and other code hygiene tools

2013-06-25 Thread L. David Baron
coverage tools separately on standards-compliance test suites might also be interesting, e.g., to see what sort of coverage the test suite for a particular specification gives us, and whether there are tests we could contribute to improve it. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron

Re: review stop-energy (was 24hour review)

2013-07-10 Thread L. David Baron
marized in less than about 100-150 characters, should have a short summary on the first line and a longer description on later lines) * write good code comments that describe the state of the new code, and if the patch is of nontrivial size, point to the important comments in the non-fir

Re: review stop-energy (was 24hour review)

2013-07-10 Thread L. David Baron
e-reviews, I wish bugzilla had a way to indicate that, since I often get re-reviews long enough after the original review that I've forgotten it's a re-review. And I prefer to prioritize re-reviews highest because it helps me get through the reviews faster, since it will be faster

Re: Pink pixel of death (reftest failures due to bad RAM)

2013-07-10 Thread L. David Baron
hich failures are caused by it, particularly after the fact. See, for example, the script in: https://hg.mozilla.org/users/dbaron_mozilla.com/bad-slaves/ which was written for: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787281 and could certainly be improved further. -David -- π„ž

Re: review stop-energy (was 24hour review)

2013-07-11 Thread L. David Baron
means doing code reviews rather than doing things like reading email or responding to this thread. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 ___

Three RDFa-related W3C Proposed (Edited) Recommendations

2013-07-16 Thread L. David Baron
ormal objection earlier in the process, whose history is documented in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/2013Jan/0057.html -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla http://

We now have a module loader for chrome workers

2013-07-19 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Using C++0x auto

2013-07-21 Thread L. David Baron
move constructors, and we'd just return them, and the move constructors plus return value optimizations would take care of avoiding excess reference counting? Or does it involve something more complicated like returning rvalue references? (Is such a thing possible?) -David -- π„ž

intent to make exception to prefixing policy: -moz-(osx-)?font-smoothing

2013-07-23 Thread L. David Baron
on interest in converging * we're under significant pressure to implement the feature immediately (I haven't yet decided whether to grant review as -moz-font-smoothing, -moz-osx-font-smoothing, or to leave the choice up to the patch author, but I plan to decide that soon.)

Re: On builds getting slower

2013-08-02 Thread L. David Baron
It's been a while, though. (See bug 64023.) khuey was also recently working on something to reduce some pretty bad #include fanout related to the new DOM bindings generation. (I'm not sure if it's landed.) -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/

Re: nsIDownloadManager replaced by Downloads.jsm

2013-08-03 Thread David E. Ross
f directly. Any relevant information emerging from > the discussion will be summarized in a new project update. > > Cheers, > Paolo > Will this break the Preserve Download Modification Timestamp extension at <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/222517/>? -- David

Re: Use ".then(null, Cu.reportError);" with Promise.jsm

2013-08-09 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
This definitely makes sense. In the JS implementation, assuming main thread only, we should be able to rig together a finalizer/warning using XPCOM. Cheers, David On 8/9/13 3:27 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Well, the obvious other thing would be window.onerror. But that might > be tough,

Re: OS X: deprecate Apple clang 4.1?

2013-08-15 Thread L. David Baron
uot;cared about" > configurations as close to N as possible. But, as I said above, those configurations evolve over time. -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before

Re: C++ style question": "virtual" annotations on methods

2013-09-04 Thread L. David Baron
ething(); }; /* virtual */ void Foo::do_something() { } -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was wallin

Re: Changes to how EXPORTS are handled

2013-09-04 Thread L. David Baron
hould we have some other mechanism (like having standalone builds and showing them on tbpl)? -David -- π„ž L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄒 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to kn

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