W3C Proposed Recommendations: RDF 1.1

2014-01-14 Thread L. David Baron
not interested or involved in. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I

Re: Target Milestone field in bugzilla

2014-01-10 Thread David Lawrence
use. They can change the milestone values using the alternative UI. dkl -- David Lawrence d...@mozilla.com ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Reftests execute differently on Android or b2g?

2014-01-08 Thread L. David Baron
rather than just local files. You could mark the reftest as HTTP to make it load via a server on all platforms. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask

Re: List of deprecated constructs [was Re: A proposal to reduce the number of styles in Mozilla code]

2014-01-07 Thread L. David Baron
not particularly inclined to start yet another one. FWIW, I've never seen much support for this change from anyone else than Benjamin, and only in his modules the NS_ENSURE_* macros have been effectively deprecated. I'm happy about getting rid of NS_ENSURE_*. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron

Re: Mozilla style guide issues, from a JS point of view

2014-01-07 Thread L. David Baron
fonts change or font rasterization changes and I have to reconfigure. (The reality for me is that I don't use side-by-side much when writing code, but I do when doing code reviews.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla

Re: Mozilla style guide issues, from a JS point of view

2014-01-06 Thread L. David Baron
visually, but I've found the bracing to be useful often enough when inserting debugging-printfs that I've come to prefer it even though I think it's ugly and wastes space. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https

W3C Last Calls: High Res Time 2, CSS Shapes, DOM Parsing and Serialization, XSLT3

2013-12-31 Thread L. David Baron
.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense

Re: js-inbound as a separate tree

2013-12-19 Thread David Burns
reduce the time the tree is closed greatly. more comments in line. David On 19/12/2013 18:48, Jason Orendorff wrote: On dev-tech-js-engine-internals, there's been some discussion about reviving a separate tree for JS engine development. The tradeoffs are like any other team-specific tree. Pro

Re: js-inbound as a separate tree

2013-12-19 Thread David Burns
On 19/12/2013 23:56, Jason Orendorff wrote: On 12/19/13 4:55 PM, David Burns wrote: On 19/12/2013 18:48, Jason Orendorff wrote: Con: - more work for sheriffs (mostly merges) If mostly merges, are you suggesting there will be little traffic on the branch or the JS team will watch the tree

Re: On the usefulness of style guides (Was: style guide proposal)

2013-12-19 Thread L. David Baron
these careful people spend on getting code style right, so I guess it's probably a win. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

Re: We should write memory reporters for new features as they're being developed

2013-12-17 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Generally, I like the idea. Is it possible to write memory reporters for JS-implemented code? Also, is it possible to write memory reporters for Chrome Worker code? Cheers, David On 12/17/13 4:57 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: So I want to propose something: if you're working on a change

W3C Proposed Recommendation: Progress Events

2013-12-16 Thread L. David Baron
issues for the first time at this stage.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendation: CORS

2013-12-16 Thread L. David Baron
to this specification, expects to produce content conforming to this specification, and expects to use products conforming to this specification). It's changeable until the deadline if other feedback comes in. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢

W3C Proposed Recommendations: Performance Timeline, User Timing, JSON-LD

2013-12-13 Thread L. David Baron
fundamental issues for the first time at this stage.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out

W3C Proposed Recommendation: CORS

2013-12-13 Thread L. David Baron
, so it's somewhat bad form to bring up fundamental issues for the first time at this stage.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

(un)safety of NS_LITERAL_STRING(...).get()

2013-12-12 Thread David Keeler
questions for anyone with some insight: - Is this pattern always unsafe? - Is it sometimes unsafe? (if so, when/why?) - Should we do some cleanup and avoid things like this? (or maybe this is an outdated concern and isn't an issue anymore?) Cheers, David [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: (un)safety of NS_LITERAL_STRING(...).get()

2013-12-12 Thread L. David Baron
On Thursday 2013-12-12 16:52 -0800, David Keeler wrote: Recently bug 539710 landed[0] to fix an unnecessary and apparently unsafe operation: const PRUnichar *comma = NS_LITERAL_STRING(,).get(); Curious, I did a quick search for other examples of NS_LITERAL_STRING combined with .get

Re: Deciding whether to change the number of unified sources

2013-12-04 Thread L. David Baron
On Wednesday 2013-12-04 16:36 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:47 PM, L. David Baron dba...@dbaron.org wrote: I'd certainly hope that nearly all of the difference in size of libxul.so is debugging info that wouldn't be present in a non-debug build. But it's worth

Re: Deciding whether to change the number of unified sources

2013-12-03 Thread L. David Baron
... -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense

Re: On closing old bugs

2013-12-03 Thread L. David Baron
that we had to fix them in order to ship. But I think it's far from saying they should be wontfixed.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

Re: [RFC] Cleaning up sessionstore.js

2013-11-29 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
where session store is going. Well, any change that would split sessionstore.js is going to need even more effort in ensuring that we collect the garbage, so I believe that this is a useful first step. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla

[RFC] Cleaning up sessionstore.js

2013-11-28 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
don't have space usage number for each of these (bug 942340 should provide more insight). If anybody feels that we are going to break one million websites (or one million profiles), we would be interested to hear about this. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla

Re: [RFC] Cleaning up sessionstore.js

2013-11-28 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
, anyway. That was the idea, yes. Cheers, 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: [RFC] Cleaning up sessionstore.js

2013-11-28 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 11/29/13 12:15 AM, Matthew N. wrote: On 11/28/13, 7:15 AM, Honza Bambas wrote: On 11/28/2013 12:56 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: As many of you know, Session Restore is something of a performance hog, for many reasons – we have reports of. One of the reasons is that we store so very

Re: Reacting more strongly to low-memory situations in Firefox 25

2013-11-25 Thread David Major
It seems that the 12MB reservation was aborting due to an invalid parameter. I've filed bug 943051. - Original Message - From: Benjamin Smedberg benja...@smedbergs.us To: Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com, dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:18:02 AM

W3C Proposed Recommendations: Performance Timeline, User Timing, JSON-LD

2013-11-25 Thread L. David Baron
for the first time at this stage.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: XQuery, XPath, XSLT, EXI, API for Media Resources

2013-11-25 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2013-10-29 12:01 +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Ralph Giles gi...@mozilla.com wrote: On 2013-10-28 2:11 PM, L. David Baron wrote: API for Media Resources 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/mediaont-api-1.0/ ... Thus I think we can be positive about

Re: Intent to replace Promise.jsm and promise.js with DOM Promises

2013-11-20 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 11/20/13 1:09 PM, Till Schneidereit wrote: How about logging them with console.info? That seems the right logging level to me, and it's easy to turn off if it gets in the way. Well, the problem is that of logging uncaught rejections. You can log them only if you catch them. Cheers, David

Re: Unified builds

2013-11-18 Thread L. David Baron
On Monday 2013-11-18 18:44 -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2013-11-17 7:50 PM, L. David Baron wrote: On Sunday 2013-11-17 16:45 -0800, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote: I've started to work on a project in my spare time

Re: Unified builds

2013-11-18 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2013-11-19 17:08 +1300, Robert O'Callahan wrote: Fortunately two static variables with the same name in the same translation unit is an error in C++, at least with gcc. Ah, indeed. I'd tested in C, where it wasn't an error, but I also see an error with gcc in C++. -David -- 턞 L

Re: Unified builds

2013-11-17 Thread L. David Baron
between files that are/might be unified? (And could we make the tree turn red if it failed?) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

Re: Shared Desktop and Metro profile work on mozilla-central

2013-11-14 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
I seem to remember that metro and desktop have a completely different format and implementation of session restore (bug 886336). Has this been somehow fixed? Cheers, David On 11/13/13 3:34 PM, Brian R. Bondy wrote: Over the past few weeks, we've been working on Metro and Desktop shared

[RFC] Should we persist dynamically generated iframes?

2013-11-13 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
of these choices would change the semantics of sessionstore.js and would alter the user experience when reopening/recovering from crash on some sites that make good use of dynamic iframes. I would like people's opinion on such changes or possible other countermeasures. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach

Re: [RFC] Should we persist dynamically generated iframes?

2013-11-13 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
? Cheers, 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: [RFC] Should we persist dynamically generated iframes?

2013-11-13 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
We could do that. This might make the behavior of Firefox a little harder to predict for web devs, though. Cheers, David On 11/13/13 7:38 PM, Mike de Boer wrote: Perhaps we could take a nuanced version of this option... Or we could not save dynamic iframes that are not visible. …changing

Re: Booting to the Web

2013-11-12 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Hi, As far as I remember, thread scheduling in Firefox OS is handled by the Linux kernel, so if you are looking for documentation, you should probably look in that direction. Cheers, David On 11/12/13 6:14 AM, saurabhlnt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.. I am presenting on the topic Firefox OS. I

Re: HWA and OMTC on Linux

2013-11-08 Thread L. David Baron
On Thursday 2013-11-07 17:37 -0800, Andreas Gal wrote: On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:06 PM, L. David Baron dba...@dbaron.org wrote: On Thursday 2013-11-07 13:24 -0800, Andreas Gal wrote: On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Karl Tomlinson mozn...@karlt.net wrote: Will any MoCo developers be permitted

Re: Pushes to Backouts on Mozilla Inbound

2013-11-07 Thread L. David Baron
about identifying and backing out changes that cause previously-passing tests to start failing intermittently. This requires better tools for doing it. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂

Re: HWA and OMTC on Linux

2013-11-07 Thread L. David Baron
recent data on OS use of Mozilla contributors who aren't paid to work on Mozilla. I'd be very surprised if it wasn't a much higher proportion of developers than users, though.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https

Measuring power usage

2013-11-05 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
for this purpose ? Note that I don't even know if that's possible in userland. - do we already have a good way to measure total power usage by a xpcshell test, perhaps by interfacing with powertop or Intel Power Gadget? Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla

Re: Measuring power usage

2013-11-05 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Good point. Just accessing the battery level is rather imprecise, but Telemetry + large numbers should help us see trends. If we go that way, this probably doesn't deserve a new library, but possibly a few utility functions in e.g. Telemetry or TelemetryStopwatch. Cheers, David On 11/5/13 4:49

Re: Pushes to Backouts on Mozilla Inbound

2013-11-05 Thread David Burns
be a good metric to see if other efforts are paying off. On 11/05/2013 07:09 AM, Ed Morley wrote: On 05 November 2013 14:44:27, David Burns wrote: We appear to be doing 1 backout for every 15 pushes on a rough average[4]. I've been thinking about this some more - and I believe the ratio

Re: Measuring power usage

2013-11-05 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
interested in using it in workers. Any thought? Cheers, 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: Pushes to Backouts on Mozilla Inbound

2013-11-05 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2013-11-05 14:44 +, David Burns wrote: We appear to be doing 1 backout for every 15 pushes on a rough average[4]. This number I am sure you can all agree is far too high especially if we think about the figures that John O'Duinn suggests[5] for the cost of each push for running

Bug Number for Add-on File Registration PRD?

2013-11-04 Thread David E. Ross
is the bug number? -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Where does your elected official stand? Which politicians refuse to tell us where they stand? See the non-partisan Project Vote Smart at http://votesmart.org/. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev

Re: Removing a window from the session store

2013-10-24 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
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Re: Removing a window from the session store

2013-10-23 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
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Re: Removing a window from the session store

2013-10-23 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Yes, please do. There's a component Session Restore. Cheers, David On 10/23/13 2:39 PM, Matthew Gertner wrote: On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:36:12 PM UTC+2, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: At the moment, there is no good way to do what you need. The only solution I can think of would

W3C Proposed Recommendation: CSS Style Attributes

2013-10-23 Thread L. David Baron
or objections you think Mozilla should make, please bring them up in this thread. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev

Re: Faster builds, now ; on windows, too.

2013-10-21 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev

Proposed W3C Charter: Web Application Security Working Group

2013-10-21 Thread L. David Baron
if they come in soon. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like

Re: [RFC] Changing the behavior of safe file output stream

2013-10-18 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Sorry, I meant flush() (lower-case), aka PR_Sync. On Fri Oct 18 16:11:43 2013, Neil wrote: Are we looking at the same stream? Finish() calls Flush() because otherwise Close() discards the file. -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

[Ann] Displaying uncaught asynchronous errors

2013-10-15 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
should make debugging async code much easier. Cheers, 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: 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

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
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Re: Extensibility of JavaScript modules

2013-10-10 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Don't hesitate to ping me when it's time. Cheers, David On 10/10/13 12:04 AM, Jason Orendorff wrote: On 10/9/13 12:56 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: I am interested, although my buglist is rather full. What kind of help would be useful? When it's time, we'll need to: 1. write

Re: java click to run problem on Firefox

2013-10-10 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
a way for his users to quickly allow Java for the page. Thierry, does the Page Information dialog do what you need? You can open that dialog from the small icon on the left of the address bar. Cheers, David On 10/10/13 6:09 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: On 10/10/2013 11:44 AM, Thierry Milard

Extensibility of JavaScript modules

2013-10-08 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
. Some developers prefer to Object.freeze() them, to ensure that this doesn't happen, while others leave them open voluntarily and use monkey-patching in test suites. Both approaches have their pros and cons. Do we/should we have a policy? Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD

Re: Coding style for functions called by Task.jsm tasks

2013-10-08 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
it and forget that it's asynchronous. If someone wanted to use the function outside of a task, they'd just need to add the Task wrapper. I actually believe that it's quite easy to forget adding the Task wrapper and end up with something wrong. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD

Re: Audit your code if you use mozilla::WeakPtr

2013-10-08 Thread David Major
Isn't it ultimately up to the developer to get it right? Someone could just as well forget to use |if (object)| from your example. Here's a sample usage from the header file: * // Test a weak pointer for validity before using it. * if (weak) { * weak-num = 17; * weak-act(); *

Re: Audit your code if you use mozilla::WeakPtr

2013-10-08 Thread David Major
and the ref blows up ... if (object) { object-Method(); // oops } - Original Message - From: Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com To: David Major dma...@mozilla.com Cc: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 4:27:03 PM Subject: Re: Audit your code if you use mozilla

Async APIs: Make wishes for Q4 and beyond

2013-10-01 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
? Accessing sqlite from chrome workers? More tooling for Promise? New preference APIs? Anything else? Please drop a line, either here or on the blog: http://wp.me/52O1 Cheers, David P.S.: If you want to discuss this IRL, I'll be in Brussels for the Summit. [1] From the top of my head, we have added

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

2013-09-04 Thread L. David Baron
::do_something() { } -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like

Re: Changes to how EXPORTS are handled

2013-09-04 Thread L. David Baron
builds and showing them on tbpl)? -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out

Re: Changes to how EXPORTS are handled

2013-09-04 Thread L. David Baron
On Wednesday 2013-09-04 18:45 +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:28:21AM +0100, L. David Baron wrote: On Wednesday 2013-09-04 00:31 -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: Assuming it sticks, bug 896797 just landed in inbound and changes how EXPORTS/headers are installed. This may

Re: On builds getting slower

2013-08-02 Thread L. David Baron
fanout related to the new DOM bindings generation. (I'm not sure if it's landed.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I

Re: Using C++0x auto

2013-07-21 Thread L. David Baron
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 -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla

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

Three RDFa-related W3C Proposed (Edited) Recommendations

2013-07-16 Thread L. David Baron
earlier in the process, whose history is documented in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa-wg/2013Jan/0057.html -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂

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

2013-07-11 Thread L. David Baron
or responding to this thread. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org

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

2013-07-10 Thread L. David Baron
of the new code, and if the patch is of nontrivial size, point to the important comments in the non-first lines of the commit message -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂

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

2013-06-25 Thread L. David Baron
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 -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla

Re: Making proposal for API exposure official

2013-06-24 Thread L. David Baron
.) 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 -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂

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 dtel...@mozilla.com wrote: If I understand correctly, we are doubling both network and disk activity (possibly CPU activity, too) for this purpose. Performance- and battery-wise, that's not a very

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

2013-05-29 Thread L. David Baron
, 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 -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢

Re: [RFC] Modules for workers

2013-05-28 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
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 dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org

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

2013-05-24 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
, 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 created

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-time flag

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

2013-05-22 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
on a 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. Usually that's just

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

[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 the opportunity to send

[RFC] Modules for workers

2013-05-18 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
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.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo

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 that apparently a number of add-ons rely

Re: Ordering shutdown observers?

2013-05-16 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
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 ___ dev-platform mailing

Re: OS.File and shutdown

2013-05-15 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
(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, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla

Re: Ordering shutdown observers?

2013-05-15 Thread L. David Baron
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 -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http

Re: OS.File and shutdown

2013-05-13 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
. 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 in order. Cheers, David

Re: PSA: inbound/central/birch closed

2013-05-11 Thread L. David Baron
://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 ehsan.akhg...@gmail.comwrote: The latest merge from m-c to inbound resulted in all debug unit

It's time to remove plugin support from Firefox mobile

2013-05-10 Thread David Keeler
[bcc'd to many lists for wide visibility - discussion should probably be on mobile.firefox.dev (https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev )] TL;DR: Now is a good time to remove plugin support from Firefox for Android. Consider: * We do not support plugins for Firefox OS and do not

Re: Storage in Gecko

2013-05-02 Thread David Teller
Whatever you do, please, please, please make sure that everything is worker-friendly. If we can't write (or at least read) contents to that Key-Value store from a worker, we will need to reimplement everything in a few months. Cheers, David - Original Message - From: Gregory Szorc g

Re: Some data on mozilla-inbound

2013-04-24 Thread David Ascher
The messaging around this should not be to tell people always test on try. It should be to help them figure out how to make better judgement calls on this. This is a skill that people develop and are not born with, and without data it's hard an an individual to judge how good I'm at that.

Re: Some data on mozilla-inbound

2013-04-23 Thread David Keeler
On 04/23/13 02:17, Ed Morley wrote: On 23 April 2013 09:58:41, Neil wrote: Hopefully a push never burns all platforms because the developer tried it locally first, but stranger things have happened! This actually happens quite often. On occasion it's due to warnings as errors (switched off

W3C Proposed Recommendation: Web Storage

2013-04-22 Thread L. David Baron
to bring up fundamental issues for the first time at this stage.) -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform

Re: Nightly *very* crashy on OSX

2013-04-21 Thread David Ascher
Mine is crashing on startup. Can't even get to profile chooser dialog. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Axel Hecht l...@mozilla.com wrote: Hi, I'm having a very crashy nightly, uptime below an hour, not really bound to a site. Might be

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 -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev

Proposed W3C Charters: groups within the XML activity

2013-04-04 Thread L. David Baron
. -David -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

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 -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 턂 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform

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

2013-04-03 Thread L. David Baron
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 -- 턞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 턂 턢 Mozilla http

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