Re: Intent to make Form Autocomplete popups use richlistbox's instead of trees

2016-10-17 Thread Mike Conley
Resurrecting this old thread to let you all know that this autolanded last night, and (if all goes well) should merge to mozilla-central soon. Thanks to MattN for the reviews! Dirty details are in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296638 On 20 August 2016 at 06:10, Gijs Kruitbosch wr

Re: Intent to make Form Autocomplete popups use richlistbox's instead of trees

2016-08-20 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
On 19/08/2016 16:25, Mike Conley wrote: Summary says it all. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296638 for details and rationale. I have a working version of this on my local machine, and will likely put it up for review today or early next week. I probably don't need to tell yo

Re: Intent to make Form Autocomplete popups use richlistbox's instead of trees

2016-08-19 Thread Jared Hirsch
Hi Mike, Drew (CC'd) is just starting to compile ideas for a more extensible urlbar API, which includes the rich-result-popup you mentioned, as well as the urlbar-rich-result-popup that extends it. It would be great to add your use cases to that conversation, especially because HTML vs XUL will be

Re: Intent to make Form Autocomplete popups use richlistbox's instead of trees

2016-08-19 Thread Mike Conley
Hey Sebastian, Great question. The reason I'm choosing richlistbox is mostly for speed and convenience, because a binding already exists (autocomplete.xml#autocomplete-rich-result-popup) that will do what I want (with some minor CSS tweaks), and I didn't want to write something new from scratch.

Re: Intent to make Form Autocomplete popups use richlistbox's instead of trees

2016-08-19 Thread Sebastian Zartner
Hi Mike, I'm not much into that topic, though I'm wondering why you don't try to switch to HTML already as the DevTools team started to do[1] recently. Sebastian [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1263750 On 19 August 2016 at 17:25, Mike Conley wrote: > (Cross-posted to dev-plat

Intent to make Form Autocomplete popups use richlistbox's instead of trees

2016-08-19 Thread Mike Conley
(Cross-posted to dev-platform and firefox-dev) Hey folks, If you don't work on front-endy things, you can safely ignore this. Summary says it all. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296638 for details and rationale. I have a working version of this on my local machine, and will l