In an effort to work more openly and foster cross-functional communication,
the Gecko Web Platform Product Team is going to make an effort to send out
bi-weekly updates covering the major component areas. These updates will be
very brief, please reach out if you have any questions.
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Accessibility [Asa Dotzler]
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Updated accessibility triage plan
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/Triage> to account for new
Bugzilla triage guidelines.
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Discussion of forced-color-adjust
<https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#forced-colors> with heycam,
jteh, and sean.
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MacOS a11y work
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Accessibility/Mac2020#Firefox_78>
progressing. Refactoring and basic VoiceOver support. Mac progress
blog
<https://blog.mozilla.org/accessibility/proper-voiceover-support-coming-soon-to-firefox-on-macos/>
posted.
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Experiment to switch to lazily turning a11y services on/off when
using accessibility panel landed
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Layout [Martin Balfanz]
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Printing: Meeting with desktop team, clarifying on different work
streams and decided next steps + owners
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Discussing SVG in Powerpoint
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1544413> issues.
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Graphics [Martin Balfanz]
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Jessie prepared a WebRender-until-end-of-year overview for Desktop
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Media [Adam Stevenson]
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Web Audio Worklets shipped in Firefox 76. Read about the technical
details in our blog post
<https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/05/high-performance-web-audio-with-audioworklet-in-firefox/>
.
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Work continues to make improvements to WebRTC in Firefox, supporting
work from home use cases.
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Transport-CC and RTX have landed in Firefox, two features
requested by Jitsi and other services.
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DOM [Adam Stevenson]
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Google Sheets bug
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623499> fix should be
deployed now
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Workers and Storage [Adam Stevenson]
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Planned for Fx 78: Ship SharedArrayBuffer (and atomics) to Release
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606624>
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I.e., globalThis.Atomics, WebAssembly.Memory({ shared:true, ...
}), and with globalThis.SharedArrayBuffer returning undefined.
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Planning to enable Service Workers for ESR78
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1547023>
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JavaScript [Mike Conca]
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Program review of SmooshMonkey completed
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Hoping the new RegExp engine
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634135> lands and
sticks in 78 Nightly
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WebAssembly [Mike Conca]
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SIMD x86 support landing in 78 Nightly for baseline
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1478632> and Ion
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631228> backends
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Multi-value <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628321> is
riding the trains to 78
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Networking [Mike Conca]
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Plan to start rollout SameSite=lax change in Beta 79
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Lots of progress on preload
Mike Conca
Group Product Manager, Firefox Web Technologies
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