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status update

maintained by Tim Rowley <tor@cs.brown.edu>

Last Updated Wednesday March 21, 2001

This status update page is updated every week. To get updates and news throughout the week you are invited to check out mozillaZine, a site devoted to Mozilla advocacy.

Previous Updates


Friends of the Tree

  • Blake Ross for his tireless and tedious work in updating XUL syntax, and Josh "timeless" Soref for his yeoman's work on code cleanup. - Mike Shaver
Module Updates
Navigator/XPApps
March 19
Submitted by Paul Chen <pchen@netscape.com>

6 bugs fixed

  • 63961 Server can't turn off Password Manager || WellsFargo won't a
  • 69810 Manage Bookmarks broken.
  • 71852 tree widgets only have one column
  • 52536 Can't put bookmark on fullpage plugin
  • 44016 UI edits to Sidebar customize dialog
  • 65862 [RFE] Sort history by 'Day -> Site -> Page' using an expandi

Highlights

  • Found manage bookmarks window bustage on mac (bug 69810), turns out that there is a lone INCLUDE_XUL define outside of content and layout directories in dom source. Thus controllers attached to xul elements wouldn't get called. Ooops.

Lowlights

  • Tree closed most of Monday and Tuesday, some fixes for 0.8.1 didn't make it into tree, though critical ones for 0.8.1 got approved and checked in.

Plans

  • Get started on mozilla0.9

People

  • Matt Fisher on vacation 03/19/01, returning 03/26/01

Team Member Status Reports

  • Matt Fisher
    • Highlights
      • fixed bug 71881 I added the new quicklinx feature for tabs
      • fixed bug Bug 31863 - clicking search button while on a search page does a search on the url
      • Coming to close resolution on search
      • Filed bugs on performance tasks
      • Started on JS package for timing
    • Lowlights
      • Worried about getting search in on time especially while I want to work on performance Waiting for Marketing to decided on server ownership of what's related.
  • Alec Flett
    • Highlights:
      • implemented timing service for rough time measurements.
      • hierarchical history finally landed, in a working state :)
      • discussed unifying global/session/urlbar history with jud and radha - result was a refactoring of nsIGlobalHistory into two interfaces, one of which will be frozen for embedding
      • under hyatt's direction, fixed tree problem where columsn weren't cropping
      • helped chak a bit with generic startup mechanism
      • have fix for 4 0.9 bugs
      • with selmer's help, got SERA to stay up for more than an hour! finally have reliable remote access
    • Lowlights:
      • a few of my 0.8.1 bugs got pushed to 0.9 ..
      • have 20 nsbeta1+ bugs
      • being asked to do help ben with bookmarks, but am overloaded. Eventually agreed to just handle personal toolbar.
  • Samir Gehani
    • Highlights
      • Got all mozilla0.8.1 features/bug landed and more.
      • Real good mozilla0.9 progress: almost done with all mozilla0.9 features/bugs in prep for possibly undertaking the pause/resume feature in libxpnet.
    • Lowlights
      • n/a
    • Accomplishments
      • Met with JJ to get mozilla mac stub installers delivered (rather than just blob since mozilla now has a download library: libxpnet).
      • Discussed instrumentation approach for embedding API testing strategy with David Epstein.
      • Met with Ying-lin to get his mac build going and discussed the design of factoring the mac binary resources into an INI file that can use the installer's INI parser.
      • mozilla0.9:
        • Raw numbers: fixes for 7 bugs (not checked in yet):
          • 5 bugzilla: 63454, 46558, 72277, 72092, 62716
          • 2 bugscape: 1703, 2875
      • mozilla0.8.1
        • Landed and resolved 9 bugs in mozilla0.8.1 this week.
    • Current Work
      • Complete last two mozilla0.9 bugs.
      • Look at browser bugs and see if I can help.
      • Commence pause/resume feature in libxpnet.
    • Decisions
      • n/a
    • Issues
      • n/a
    • People
      • n/a
  • Ben Goodger
    • No status report received from Ben Goodger
  • Bill Law
    • Highlights
    • Lowlights
      • mozilla0.8.1 fixes for bugs 26029, 57576, and 50424 were not checked in due to tree closure till late Monday/Tuesday and "metering" that made me decide to just wait till post-mozilla0.8.1.
    • Other Activities
      • Polished those bug fixes some.
      • Worked on fix for nasty bug 53952. I have a non-DDE ipc mechanism working. Now need to implement DDE on a separate thread and use that mechanism.
      • Worked some more on "-server" support (starting Mozilla in background on Windows startup).
      • Met to talk about Print Preview; waiting for more backend work to add functionality.
      • Worked some on new "helper app launcher dialog" (rearranging code for embedding purposes).
    • Plans
      • Check in what were mozilla0.8.1 fixes when tree opens.
      • Work on helper app launcher dialog.
      • Performance (not sure what, though).
      • Other miscellaneous things from last week.
  • Chris McAfee
    • Good:
      • Checked in some nsEventManagerListener changes for the browser (68074).
      • Reviewed morse's changes for Cookie Service overhaul (46783).
      • Chased down (56417), could not reproduce with gtk 1.2.7, futured this off of 081 radar.
    • Bad:
      • Sheriff Wed was hard, intermittant linux orange was hard tracking down, jury's still out. This ate up a lot of my time on Thursday as well.
      • Pushed find bug to .9
    • Other:
      • Probable vacation in late April.
  • Steve Morse
    • ONGOING WORK
      • 46783 restructure cookies interface for embedding This bug has still been occupying nearly 100% of my time. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. All the coding changes have been made and tested and they work fine. Now it's just a matter of getting the necessary reviews and having my mac buddy do the update of the mac project files. Paul Chen has offered to be my mac buddy. Valeski has already reviewed the c++ changes and mcaffee is in the process of reviewing the xul and js changes. Several other minor bugs will be fixed by the patch I have in bug 46783. They are:
        • 40026: view cookie manager and image manager as separate dialogs
        • 64588: js warning in CookieViewer.js
        • 70437: js warning in cookieTasksOverlay.xul
    • NEW WORK
      • 71071 reduce number of writes to cookie file Started investigating this and am in the process of testing out a change that should fix this bug.
Rendering
March 19
Submitted by Kevin McCluskey <kmcclusk@netscape.com>

Highlights

  • All untargeted rendering bugs have been triaged
  • Rod Spears implemented the ability to visually display reflow counts per leaf frame within the browser window. It can be enabled through a menu item in viewer or through a pref in Mozilla. This should help track down occurrences where particular frames are being reflowed too much.

Lowlights

  • none

Dogfood

  • none

Risk

  • none

Dependencies

  • offline printing and printing ART images depend on the landing of new imagelib

Features

  • none

Escalations

  • none

Issues

  • none

People

  • Rod Spears will be on Sabbatical from June 15th thru Aug12th of 2001

Priorities for next week

  • Don Cone
    • 7201 - When printing pages w/frames, frames print on separate pages
    • Get print preview in viewer working.
    • SMIL meetings.
    • Monitor the embedding work, update the embedding API for the printing.
    • Finish setting up linux build machine
  • Rod Spears
    • Check in bug fixes
    • 70949 - Need API to be able to abort printing
    • 70946 - Need to report printing progress
  • Waqar Malik
    • 54194 - Printing applet page is crashing the browser [@ nsPostScriptObj::begin_document]
    • 70424 - N601 Linux crash [@ nsRenderingContextGTK::CopyOffScreenBits]
  • Eric Pollmann
    • 64702 Browser crashes when attempting to fill in a web form.
    • 70497 Hidden text fields on form are not submitted
  • Kevin McCluskey
    • 72138 - Incremental page loading is broken.
    • Check in fixes for:
      • 19256 - Excess frame redrawing during incremental reflow
      • 63951 - one pixel of cruft left after deleting an 'f' in composer.
      • Investigate why 15% of all calls to nsIViewManager::MoveViewTo only move the view 1 pixel?

Accomplishments

  • Don Cone
    • SMIL meeting
    • Page Preview Meeting
    • fixed some bugs in viewer print-preview in viewer
    • Putting together a Linux machine to help with Postscript printing.
    • I hooked up the frame printing with the WEBSHELL substituted in nsFrameFrame for a loading document.. This did not work.
    • I started to save the offsets for the frames in the framesets.. and am attempting to print this inside of the frame.
    • Bug triage
  • Rod Spears
    • Worked on getting the nsIWebBrowserPrint interface working with the nsIPrintListener interface so objects that request printing to be done can listen to and cancel printing. I changed the nsDocumentViewerImpl so it now prints each page async using PLEvents, more work needs to be done once Don gets the frames as is printing working. I also changed MFCEmbed to use the new APIs and post a print progress dialog that can cancel printing. The cancelling works, but I am having problems getting the Cancel GUI event within the MFC dialog.
    • Worked On/Triaged
      • 58855 - <option> disabled not disabling initial option
    • Triaged/Worked On/Reassigned
      • 69785 - form listboxes missing
    • Fixed/Checkin
      • 58190 - HTML-4 buttons are not displayed on the same baseline as text
    • Fixed
      • 72226 - Disabled items change visual state
      • 62753 - OnChange events are not being sent at the right times for selects
    • Checked in
      • 70572 - crash in GKHTML.dll after validating form
  • Waqar Malik
    • Resolved
      • 56687 sometimes forms (buttons?) are not displayed
      • 55422 However above some of the images on this site makes them dis
    • Worked on
      • 69010 nsRenderingContext::FillRect is waaaaay slow because we pain
      • 69634 crash occurs while printing from page x to page y
      • 67532 Mozilla renders the site www.ipix.com unusable.
      • 70524 Classic - Buttons missing text in different places
      • 70424 N601 Linux crash [@ nsRenderingContextGTK::CopyOffScreenBits
  • Eric Pollmann
    • Fixed
      • 71834 enctype form submission not working (submit button does nothing, breaks bugzilla file submission)
      • 57768 Missing data when send FORM TEXTAREA content with method post and ENCTYPE multipart/form-data
      • 25300[OS/2] Space doesn't activate buttons on OS/2 [set patch to mkaply per IBM request for OS/2 port]
    • Checked in
      • 71834 enctype form submission not working (submit button does nothing, breaks bugzilla file submission)
      • 65878 iframe src= (image) ignores scrolling attributes
      • 68010 iFrame/Frame element's scrolling="no" attribute not working in XHTML
      • 55988 hidden fields reset on back and history.go(0)
    • Dups
      • 68342 form.submit() causes NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER [dup of 68321]
      • 68666 Form POST after HTTP auth looses data / changed to GET [dup of 44536]
      • 70057 Form variables lost when POSTing them to a HTTP Authentication-protected script [dup of 44536]
      • 65982 Form post doesn't work when posting to _blank [dup of 41241]
    • Invalid
      • 71766 target attribute not used in frames in http URLs [symptom of 13871's fix]
      • 71823 Some menu items fail to display [ invalid browser sniffing code ]
    • Other
      • 71791 HTTP Authentication requires logging in twice [ created testcase, -> darin@netscape ]
      • 63991 Reload doesn't restore session history state [ -> radha@netscape ]
      • 63293 Reload doesn't repost form data [ -> radha@netscape ]
      • 68797 Reload doesn't repost, Back reloads [ -> radha@netscape ]
      • 61912 Password manager remembers empty strings [ -> morse@netscape ]
  • Kevin McCluskey
    • Twice weekly SVG teleconference
    • Twice weekly performance/memory meeting
    • Met with printing team to discuss print preview
    • Marek, Frank Petitta and I triaged all the remaining ontargetted rendering bugs.
    • Worked on:
      • 72138 - Incremental page loading is broken. Determined that content.notify.interval in the nsHTMLContentSink may be set too large. Changing the interval from 1sec to 1/4 sec dropped the time it takes to initially display the top table in www.yahoo.com from 5 seconds to 2 seconds with a 28.8 connection. jrgm will run his performance tests to determine if lowering the the content.notify.interval has a significant negative impact on page load performance.
    • Created fix for:
      • 70211 - nsContainerFrame::PositionChildViews does a recursive walk of the frame tree when positioning views. Created a new patch that should be more efficient. John Morrision ran his performance tests but it had no impact on page load performance.
    • Reviewed Fix
      • 72055 - Crash in AddCoveringWidgetsToOpaqueRegion
LDAP
March 19
Submitted by Dan Mosedale <dmose@netscape.com>

stuff done

  • reviewed, debugged, and checked in patches from leif@netscape.com for splitting up the LDAP build system into --enable-ldap and --enable-ldap-experimental on Unix and ENABLE_LDAP / ENABLE_LDAP_EXPERIMENTAL env vars on Windows. This change landed before 0.8.1 branched.
  • sorted out similar changes to mac buildsystem with help from peterv@netscape.com.

plans for this week

  • land mac patches and turn on the main ldap module by default
  • turn on the main ldap module by default on windows
  • work with cls to ensure a sort landing of main ldap on ports tinderboxen, and once we get there, turn it on in the unix build by default.
  • keep hacking on nsLDAPAutoCompleteSession
Editor
March 19
Submitted by Beth Epperson <beppe@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Team triaged mozilla0.8.1 bug list
  • Team triaged mozilla0.9 bug list
  • The team resolved 28 bugs this week (3/11-17) (10 fixed, 9 dup, 3 invalid, 5 wfm, 1 wontfix)
  • There are 91 open bugs in mozilla0.9 for the editor team

Akkana

  • Bug 66345: editor directory reorg work. Met with Simon, Kin, and Joe to discuss ultimate hierarchy, and posted the plan to mozilla-editor for comments (didn't get any). Reorganized files to meet the new hierarchy plans. Spoke with Charley re one editor shell method relating to table selection which will have to be factored. Overwhelmed Kin and Joe with too many patches. :-)
  • Bug 57078: key binding doom. Got rid of the erroneous xul bindings, only to find that XBL in text controls doesn't follow the correct user/platform/xp hierarchy (in other words, xp bindings override everything else, when it should be the other way around). Need to discuss this with Hyatt and find out how to solve the problem. The hierarchy works for windows, just not for text controls. Came up with a small workaround patch which should make things work for now (awaiting more review and testing, still not clear whether this will make 0.8.1). These fixes also fix 57241 (undo undoes twice).
  • Spent a day tracking down the cause of tree blockers 71836 and 71224, downloading builds to pinpoint the time of breakage, building, backing out patches and testing fixes.
  • 71461: moved paste as quotation into the plaintext editor so it will be accessible in form controls too (e.g. for webmail or bugzilla comments).

Anthony

  • finished reviewing diff for bidi fro Simon Montague (bug# 71314)
  • checked in bug fix for 67985
  • checked in bug fix for 59005
  • triaged my bugs to reduce my 0.9 list
  • investigated regression with , but it turned out not to be my fault

Beth

  • Traiged incoming bugs for the team
  • Met with Seth to go over a output bug that cropped up in mail
  • Attended the W3C HTML WG tele-conference
  • Started preparing for hosting the W3C HTML and forms WG fall/winter ftf in San Diego
  • Reviewing W3C CR specs
  • Trying to get team Goals and Objectives documents done
  • Started working on some stuff for the Advanced dialog box for Charley

Charley

  • Finished and checked in fixes for 70413 (Spelling dictionary always launched to allow access to user dictionary) and 62158 (Table submenu enabling.)
  • Worked on bugs 71883 (changing contents looses focus and selection. Focus issue fixed, still working on selection issue) and 72194 (Ok button disabling when empty name input in Named Anchor dialog. Waiting for review.)
  • Worked more on Advanced Edit dialog (bug 71743).
  • Spent most of Tuesday helping rest of editor group debug blocker bugs 71836 and 71224, which killed editor because of event code changes.
  • Lots of bug triage and debugging.

Daniel

  • Fixed but not yet checked in:
    • 71647 [CSS3] RFE : add support for the new :not() pseudo-class
    • 71648 Dump of stylesheets in Viewer outputs erroneous selectors
    • 57686 Invisible table borders don't render in composer unless you specify border=0 ; depends on 71647 above.
  • Other accomplishments:
    • worked on 57686, 71647 and 71648
    • discovered a possible bug bug in namespace management in CSS engine; it seems that html is most of the time the default namespace in CSS even if no default namespace is explicitely defined ; working on it.
    • worked on css pseudo-classes accepting arguments (eg :lang())
    • new cook books released

Joe

  • lots of whitespace work
  • discussed dom range work with Jeff Yates; there are some problems with his implementations of unfinished range methods: he doens't always follow the spec
  • worked on mac support for akkana's reorg of editor directories
  • triaged bugs

Kathy

  • keybinding bugs, discussions, issues, testing with Akkana
  • file bugs
  • got purify working with my Windows build
  • Composer blocker bugs on Tuesday
  • reviewed some code for Charley

Kin

  • Several code reviews for Mozilla 0.8.1 checkins.
  • Helped akkana and brade verify some of their fixes on win32 and reported findings in bug.
  • Most of Tuesday lost getting my Win32 box up and running after IS wiped my disk to get rid of the Fun Loving virus. Turns out they didn't have to do that. :-( But they thought it was the easiest thing to do after an hour of trying to get the Mcafee VirusScan working with no success. Like others I was infected even though I had the VirusScan program that IS recommended a couple of months ago, installed.
  • Various discussions with people in the group. (reorg, recyclers, patches, etc)
  • Spent some time Friday morning compiling a list of files that were missing after the big skin landing, which was causing commercial bustage on Win32 and Linux.
  • Triaged and did some preliminary debugging for various editor bugs.
  • Have most of the makefiles on windows done for the proposed editor dir hierarchy. They will still need tweaking as akkana shuffles more code and files around.

Mike

  • no update this week

Simon

  • Had discussion with hyatt about command updating, getting closer to an implementation for command updating now.
  • Spent some time looking at alternatives for loading libraries on startup on Mac. Hacked up a single big file-mapped component library, found that this didn't help startup time much.
  • Did some page loading tests to determine what the speedup from my PR_Poll fixes really was (5-6%).
  • Fixed an FTP regression from the PR_Poll fix, with Gordon.
  • Exchanged email with some folks at Apple about library loading issues.
  • Went to a couple of performance meetings

Lowlights

  • none

Project Issues

  • Between the network outages, the virus and tree closures -- it's been quite a week

People Issues

  • Simon off on 16 April
  • Daniel took monday off, recovering from travel
XPToolkit
March 19
Submitted by Peter Trudelle <trudelle@netscape.com>

Summary

  • The XPToolkit team resolved 42 bugs in the last week, fixing 20 of these. For details, see our resolved bug list.
  • Outliner is now working in mail/news on trunk, thanks to Dave Hyatt and the mail/news team!

Highlights

  • Mike Pinkerton (pinkertoni)
    • fix duplicate IID's in menu code (bug 71722)
    • fixed two string leaks in nsTransferable (bug 71563)
    • tooltips now go away when mouse exits the frame, not any time the mouse moves
    • clients can turn off the 'auto-hide' behavior of tooltips by setting the 'noautohide' attribute on the popup (bug 71547)
    • checked in patch from dean to fix xpmenus with x-mouse (bug 50798)
    • checked in patch from dean to make xpmenus go away (bugs 45108, 31601, 37992, 39276, 45202, 63527, 68889)
    • hooked up reflow counts on mac for rod
    • updated popup docs to include "noautohide" attribute
  • Chris Saari (saari)
    • Killed lots of little bugs in libimg2.
  • Daniel Matejka (danm)
    • We have a plan and a next cut at a "spec" for our extrafenestral embedding API.
    • dr and I have a list of all dialogs affected by packaging Gecko as an embedded browser. That's step 1 of the new world order for the two of us.
    • 71266 window.focus() function in XUL windows breaks after working
    • 70481 need to get rid of isModal, isWindowModal redundancy
  • Eric Vaughan (evaughan)
    • Did basic accessibility for table, cell, select, button, radio button, checkbox, list box, and text field.
    • Got accessibility building on mac
    • Got accessibility building on Aaron's laptop to demo at CSUN conference.
  • David Hyatt (hyatt)
    • profiled new window performance and filed/fixed several bugs.
    • fixed a couple of xbl bugs
  • Dan Rosen (dr)
    • Primarily worked on 71837, finding and categorizing all dialog posing calls affected by embedding, as part of the big fat 65233 effort to create and use overridable dialog posing components. Worked heavily with danm, and spat out a first cut at a categorization document at the end of the week.
  • Aaron Leventhal (aaronl)
    • Fixed bug 71784, waiting for 1 more s[r=]
    • Synced keyboard nav and accessibility bugs with current design goals
    • 65158 Need to attach accessibility event handler to all windows in
  • Brian Ryner (bryner)
    • gained an understanding of how url bar <--> content tabbing should work.
    • 40611 Tabbing in AB card dialog doesn't cycle to top

Lowlights

Priorities

  • pinkerton:
    • 44809 nsbeta3Appshell - nsIPrompt Service needs to die
  • saari:
    • land libimg2
    • kill remaining bugs (ART decoder is the big one still)
  • hyatt:
    • Finish outliner details/bugs.
  • evaughan:
    • Get SR and land MSAA server.
    • Make iframes accessible.
    • Implement accessible events
  • danm:
    • Modify the above-mentioned embedding dialog API document by decisions reached in the last embedding API review meeting, including programmer's guidelines.
    • dr and I need to reorganize the list of affected dialogs mentioned above into prospective components.
    • Solicit help with component writing, and get to work writing the pluggable API components (as described in the embedded dialog document).
    • Oh, and once we've finished step 2 above, we'll know enough to put ourselves on Bugzilla tracking radar
  • dr:
  • aaronl:
    • Start working on MSAA code.
  • bryner:
    • fix url bar <--> content tabbing bugs (31809, 44257)
    • 71351 (make sure PSM always has an nsIPrompt in mailnews)

Risk

  • Dialog API and Accessibility tasks are both taking longer than we planned, but by load-balancing the remaining work we should still be able to land in the redefined mozilla0.9 milestone.

Issues

  • none

Escalation

  • none

People

  • Dan Rosen will be representing Netscape all day at the XPath task force face-to-face in San Jose on Wednesday. The XSL working group is meeting Thursday and Friday as well, but my attendance there will be limited.
  • Aaron Leventhal will represent Netscape all week at Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference at California State University, Northridge.
  • Found someone who should be a great fit for our internship position, details when get an offer & acceptance.
  • Still looking for another regular full-time XPToolkit engineer. If you are interested, please send resume to <mailto:xpfe-jobs@netscape.com>.
Client QA
March 19
Submitted by Lisa Chiang <lchiang@netscape.com>
  • Applications:
    • Test runs:
      • Assisted and reported bugs with testing of various areas scheduled for carpool in special builds. Included cache, mailnews.
      • Ran the current Installation tests on Windows XP (Whistler). No new problems found relating to running builds on the OS.
    • Test documentation completed:
      • Converted remaining 300 CSS1 basic tests to XHTML 1.0, and created test matrix for them
      • Wrote 30+ test cases for DOM, Style and Layout; both automated and manual.
      • Form Submission Automated Testcase creation - now there is 400 total
      • XPInstall Register test plan completed.
    • Performance and Other Tools:
      • Ran Gecko Performance testing on viewer- reported results to Marc Attinasi. Working on posting the results more broadly.
  • Embedding:
    • Received "qaembed" (based on MfcEmbed) from development. It's a minimal browser framework we will add test cases to for testing the APIs.
    • Continued with performance testing on trunk vs. mfcEmbed
Necko/Imagelib
March 20
Submitted by Gagan Saksena <gagan@netscape.com>

Summary

  • gagan
    • Initial browser load time results with the new cache look great!
    • Cache team working hard to get it ready to land.
    • Plugins are working with new cache.

Highlights

  • darin
    • Fixed bug 71495 [HTTPS bustage].
    • Fixed bug 71346 [can't upload large files].
    • Added nsICachingChannel interface to support stream-as-file and cache-entry-pinning at the protocol level.
    • Implemented about:cache
    • Implemented about:cache-entry
    • Improved HTTP cache validation code path.
    • Fixed bug 43729 [HTTP headers shown in browser window].
    • Posted optimized test build of mozilla w/ new cache.
    • Initial browser load results w/ new cache look good :-)
  • neeti
    • Investigated, reassigned bugs 71268, 71284, 72109.
    • Working on identifying URLS which leak nsHTTPChannel objects out of the 500 URLS.
    • Investigating bug 70531.
  • gordon
    • Checked in Simon Fraser's fix to bug 29338 "PR_Poll should not spin on Mac" for 0.8.1
    • Checked in fix to previous fix - bug 72038 "FTP never stops loading on Mac" for 0.8.1
    • Checked in implementation of StoragePolicy attribute.
    • Implemented support for about:cache in nsMemoryCacheDevice.
    • Designed a simple mechanism to enable history to access the cached results of POST requests (with Darin).
    • Checked in implementation of about:cache for nsMemoryCacheDevice.
    • Reviewed cache bugs (old and new) in preparation for landing.
  • dougt
    • Necko API Review Changes (71053, 71055, 71056, 71060)
    • Spent a two investigating at a IMAP 0.81 blocker bug - 70928
    • Got plugins working with the new cache.
    • Found and help simon investigate a mac nspr 0.81 blocking bug.
  • pnunn
    • I'm documenting the images and image tests I've accumulated.
  • gagan
    • http://status/bugs/ is back online. Seems to be working fine now. I have to still add a few touchups before I release officially on Wed.
    • Cache team has been working hard to get it ready to land

Lowlights

  • gordon
    • Struggling with my linux box. I sometimes lose the interrupt on the IDE drive, gdb is way too slow loading symbols, and gdm won't let me log in and exec bash from my .cshrc script.
  • gagan
    • Still quite a few bugs left to triage
    • Gordon's linux box seems to have developed some disk-IO problems.
    • No status report from pavlov this week.

Issues

Plans for the next week

  • darin
    • Land the new cache!!
    • Triage bugs for 0.9
    • Focus on 0.9 bugs blocking bug 70229
  • neeti
    • Work on bugs 70531, 66694, 62388, 53956.
    • Bug triage.
  • gordon
    • Land new cache.
    • Implement Disk Cache Performance Level 1 (efficient eviction/low-cost cache misses).
  • dougt
    • Checking major improvements to the ftp protocol.
  • gagan
    • Help land the new cache and imagelib.
    • Monitor the new bugs closely.
    • More bug triaging
XML/DOM
March 20
Submitted by Nisheeth Ranjan <nisheeth@netscape.com>

Summary

  • Bug triaging happened across the team. We are within our bug budget accorded to us by Maarek based on past bug fixing rates.
  • Harish will drive the P3P effort on behalf of Netscape and Mozilla. Thanks, Harish! This will involve understanding what IBM has implemented and how it can be integrated with Mozilla.
  • Kudos to Johnny for fixing a lot of bugs last week even as work on migrating the DOM to use XPConnect continues.
  • Peter van der Beken was extremely productive while he was here and worked very long hours. Thanks, Peter, for your unflagging enthusiasm and hard work! He left for Paris on Saturday.
  • Tom leaves to go back to Boston today. He has been plugging away on upgrading our DOM events functionality to make it more spec compliant and working with Johnny to make sure events work on the XPConnect branch.
  • It has been great having the entire XML/DOM team together for a week. All of us went on a team outing on Friday afternoon to the Malibu Grand Prix racing place in Redwood City.

Highlights

  • heikki
    • Code reviews for pollmann.
    • Learned about the NIST DOM test suite which does not work in Mozilla, bug 51247.
    • Worked on getting XML Extras module loaded at startup in the embedded case, bug 71869.
    • Updated XML documentation on www.mozilla.org.
    • Bug triage.
  • harishd
    • Worked on tracking a MLK. It looks like we leak memory between page loadings.
    • Added background-color property for getComputedStyle - yet to land.
    • Worked on enabling noscript for XHTML documents served as xml - yet to land.
    • Replaced about eight PRBools with a single PRUint8 flag in NavDTD - yet to land.
    • Discussed, with Gerardo, about getting traction on Clayton's bug list.
    • Helped Bill Phillips, from IBM, in understanding DOMElements & htmlparser.
    • Attended Phil's staff meeting.
    • Triaged my bug list.
  • jst
    • Made more progress on making JS access the DOM through XPConnect, jband is making good progress on the XPConnect side on this and things are starting to work, still lots to be done though.
    • Fixed bug 70170. Make sure we unblock the parser after loading a script file even if loading the script failed or the script file was empty.
    • Fixed bug 67573. Make sure the presshell is in a state where it's safe to flush pending notifications when the script onload handler is fired.
    • Came up with a hackaround for the annoying bug 55334, missing scrollbars in document.open()'ed documents.
    • Worked on speeding up the Resolve hook in the HTML document and HTML form classes, also fixed a bunch of other resolve problems where the resolver finds too many elements and thus pollutes the document and form namespace (fixes bugs 57626, 61413, 59024, 50018, 64523 and probably others).
  • peterv
    • Reviewed and checked in patch by Jonas Sicking for bug 68605.
    • Helped Heikki with content/layout split cleanup on Mac (bug 69830).
    • Helped Heikki with turning on XML Extras in the default build on mac.
    • Checked in mac build script changes to keep Transformiix, Component Viewer and MathML building, added the necessary changes to build Document Viewer and Vixen. These are all turned off in the default build.
    • Renamed NS_PARSER_IID to NS_PARSER_CID.
    • Changed the code path for XSLT in the XML Content sink a bit.
    • Fixed XSLT crashers (bug 67066 and 62538).
    • Rewrote the wrapper classes for Transformiix.
    • Updated a patch by jst for loading stylesheets through the DOM.
  • joki
    • Checked in fixes for four 0.9 bugs in time for 0.8.1 tree close
    • Got Create/Init/Dispatch event working locally
    • Started working on jst's branch to get event dispatch fully running
  • nisheeth
    • The following bullet points are for status over the last *two* weeks (3/5 - 3/18)
    • Triaged bugs. I now have zero untargeted bugs, seven 0.9 bugs and eight 0.9.1 bugs.
    • Met with Johnny Stenback, Dan Rosen, Heikki Toivonen, Peter van der Beken and Vidur to talk about future (7.0 and beyond) XSLT and XML parsing related work.
    • Checked in partial fix for bug 57597
    • Had a phone meeting with Dave Winer, CEO of UserLand Software and creator of www.scripting.com, and talked about XML related work happening in Mozilla, Netscape, and Userland.
    • Worked on bug 57592. Will check in fix this week.
    • Attended the ACM1 Conference in San Jose.
    • Gave a Netscape tour to a professor and 18 kids from a Mexican University who I met at the ACM1 conference.
    • Met with Harish to talk about driving P3P within Netscape and Mozilla. He agreed to do it. Thanks, Harish!
    • Attended the W3C reps meeting on Friday, March 9.
    • Made it so that expat defines abort() to nothing when it is compiled within Mozilla.

Plans for next week

  • heikki
    • Work on DOM 3 base URI, we are getting many dependecies on this.
    • Work on XML Extras.
  • harishd
    • To familiarize with P3P issues. Will be talking to Tomas Lendacky & Brendan.
    • Start attacking m0.9 bugs.
    • Attend Phil's staff meeting.
    • Triage bugs ( if necessary! )
  • jst
    • Check in some of the fixes I currently have in my tree.
    • Continue working on the DOM/XPConnect changes.
  • peterv
    • Check in changes to wrapper classes for Transformiix.
    • Refactor split between XPath and XSLT in Transformiix.
    • Finish patch for loading stylesheets through the DOM.
  • joki
    • Finished Create/Init/Dispatch work
    • Get event dispatch fully working on jst's branch
  • nisheeth
    • Fix bug 57592
    • Start work on bugs related to the dummy layout channel added by the presshell.

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