Re: Finding out if the main thread is currently animating

2015-10-30 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Recall that I'm not interested in measuring all latency, only (for the time being) latency caused by JS code executing on the main thread or waiting for a CPOW. This simplifies a lot the implementation (when I execute JS code, I just need to check whether I'm currently dealing with a user-issued

Re: Date, time, week, month and datetime attributes in the in Firefox

2015-10-30 Thread Xidorn Quan
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Xidorn Quan wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Ehsan Akhgari >> wrote: >>> On 2015-10-29 7:21 PM, Carlos Valim Coragem wrote:

Re: Date, time, week, month and datetime attributes in the in Firefox

2015-10-30 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Xidorn Quan wrote: > Authors sometimes just want something usable. It doesn't matter if it > is not stylable, or it doesn't fit in the UI. When they really need to > start caring about such things, they can switch to use jQuery UI then. I

Sheriffing Newsletter October Edition

2015-10-30 Thread Carsten Book
Hi, To give a little insight into our work and make our work more visible to our Community we decided to create a monthly report of what's going on in the Sheriffs Team. If you have questions or feedback, just let us know! In case you don't know who the sheriffs are, or to check if there are

Re: Finding out if the main thread is currently animating

2015-10-30 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Note that I'm looking for a way to track this across the entire process, not a single document. I'd rather avoid having to track all documents (both XUL and HTML) in the process if I can find a simpler solution. On 30/10/15 01:18, Brian Birtles wrote: > For CSS animations/transitions (not

Re: Finding out if the main thread is currently animating

2015-10-30 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Yes, that's also my guess. I'd appreciate if someone could confirm that. Also, I haven't found a public API for this, so I'm digging in the source of the refresh driver, and I haven't found confirmation yet. Cheers, David On 30/10/15 02:33, Karl Tomlinson wrote: > David Rajchenbach-Teller

Re: Date, time, week, month and datetime attributes in the in Firefox

2015-10-30 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Xidorn Quan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Ehsan Akhgari > wrote: >> On 2015-10-29 7:21 PM, Carlos Valim Coragem wrote: >>> >>> It seems that this problem only happens in the desktop version and not

Re: Merge moved to Thursday 29th

2015-10-30 Thread nhirata
1) The reason why we've merge in the beginning of the week is traditionally there has been fall outs as well as chemspills. ie this helps reduce the number of people that have to work weekends in order to fix up the branches. In case you need evidence of the fall outs, you can see the crash

Re: Date, time, week, month and datetime attributes in the in Firefox

2015-10-30 Thread Carlos Valim Coragem
Hi Jonas! Thanks for your response :) > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Xidorn Quan > wrote: >> Authors sometimes just want something usable. It doesn't matter if it >> is not stylable, or it doesn't fit in the UI. When they really need to >> start caring about such

Re: Date, time, week, month and datetime attributes in the in Firefox

2015-10-30 Thread Carlos Valim Coragem
Hi Xidorn! Thanks for your response :) > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Ehsan Akhgari >> >> Your experience is expected. We have an implementation of these form >> controls on Android, but not on desktop. We have been waiting for UX >> specs >> for this feature on

Re: Collecting web platform features implementation status

2015-10-30 Thread Andrew Overholt
Harald (on CC) is working on it here: https://github.com/mozilla/platatus On Oct 29, 2015 6:38 PM, "Tom Schuster" wrote: > Seems like this kind of died. I still would like to see this happening. Is > this on somebody's agenda? > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Tom Schuster

Re: Finding out if the main thread is currently animating

2015-10-30 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
I have posted an early patch on bug 1219145 that approximates "animating" to "is anyone listening for vsync". If anybody knowledgeable could take a look, I'd be grateful. Cheers, David On 30/10/15 02:33, Karl Tomlinson wrote: > David Rajchenbach-Teller writes: > >> To improve the Performance

Re: Finding out if the main thread is currently animating

2015-10-30 Thread Honza Bambas
On 10/30/2015 2:35, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: On 2015-10-29 9:47 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: The main thread of the current chrome/content process. Indeed, animations are one of my two use cases, the other one being user-input latency, but I'm almost sure I know how to deal with the

Re: Intent to ship: WebVR

2015-10-30 Thread Gervase Markham
On 29/10/15 17:07, vladi...@mozilla.com wrote: >> At one point, integrating with available hardware required us to use >> proprietary code. Is shipping proprietary code in Firefox any part of >> this plan, or not? > > No. Awesome! :-) Gerv ___

Re: Finding out if the main thread is currently animating

2015-10-30 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
This sounds like a good idea. I'll see if I can get some time budgeted to help with this during Q1. Cheers, David On 30/10/15 15:09, Honza Bambas wrote: > This is exactly what I want Backtrack for > (http://www.janbambas.cz/new-gecko-performance-tool-backtrack/). That > tool will allow you to