[desktop] Bugs logged by Desktop Release QA in the last 7 days

2019-10-07 Thread Mihai Boldan
Hello, Here's the list of new issues found and filed by the Desktop Release QA team in the last 7 days. Additional details on the team's priorities last week, as well as the plans for the current week are available at: https://tinyurl.com/y64js7do. Bugs logged by Desktop Release QA in the

Re: Intent to ship: Web Speech API

2019-10-07 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:00 AM Marcos Caceres wrote: > - The updated implementation more closely aligns with Chrome's > implementation - meaning we get better interop across significant sites. What site can one try to get an idea of what the user interface is like? > - speech is processed in

Re: Intent to ship: Web Speech API

2019-10-07 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
On 07/10/2019 02:55, Marcos Caceres wrote: - speech is processed in our cloud servers, not on device. Is this the case for both recognition and synthesizing? It's not clear from this concise description. Also, hasn't window.speechSynthesis been shipped before now? It's used from e.g.

Re: Intent to ship: Web Speech API

2019-10-07 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 07/10/2019 09:53, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 5:00 AM Marcos Caceres wrote: - speech is processed in our cloud servers, not on device. What should one read to understand the issues that lead to this change? +1. This seems like a change of direction which has *huge*

Re: Experimenting with JavaScript type safety in mozilla-central

2019-10-07 Thread Mike Conley
This is a great thing to start looking into. I myself have definitely been burned in the past because something unexpected got coerced into something equally unexpected, resulting in behaviour that is without-a-doubt unexpected. So thanks to the folks getting this off the ground! On Mon, 7 Oct

Re: [blink-dev] Re: What to do about scroll anchoring?

2019-10-07 Thread Mike Taylor
Hi Rick, On 9/28/19 10:07 PM, Rick Byers wrote: Can you give us a week or so to chat about this within the Chrome team and get back to you? Any updates here? Thanks. -- Mike Taylor Web Compat, Mozilla ___ dev-platform mailing list

Fission Newsletter #3

2019-10-07 Thread Nika Layzell
Hey All! Over the last two months, we've made some excellent progress towards improving the stability and feature support of Fission-enabled Firefox! Are We Fission Yet? The team has been hard at work, pushing down the number of failing Fission Mochitests dramatically over the past few months!

Experimenting with JavaScript type safety in mozilla-central

2019-10-07 Thread Dave Townsend
JavaScript powers a lot of Firefox but unlike the other languages that ship code in our product JavaScript uses a dynamic type system. Types for variables are decided at execution time and can change as new values are assigned to them. This leaves you open to accidentally passing the wrong kind of