Product highlights for the Gecko Web Platform over the past two weeks:
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Accessibility [Asa Dotzler]
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Published blog post about Global Accessibility Awareness Day
<https://blog.mozilla.org/accessibility/today-is-global-accessibility-awareness-day/>
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Worked on Intro to A11Y presentation.
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Considering new non-experiment approach to enabling a11y panel in dev
tools.
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Layout [Martin Balfanz]
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Starting Q3 planning
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Lazy-loading threshold currently discussed by whatwg
<https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5408>. Monitoring the
conversation.
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Analyzing experiment opportunities around Fenix: auto-enabled
lazy-loading for all images; prefers-reduced-data; throttling animations
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Graphics [Martin Balfanz]
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Starting Q3 planning
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Several UX related conversations around pinch-zooming for desktop.
Aiming for more insights through data.
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Starting light research on high refresh-rate screens
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Media [Adam Stevenson]
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Landing RTX support in Nightly broke Google Meet
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638758>, disabled RTX
temporarily
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Working on support actions API
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1640998> on
MediaControlKeysEventSource
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Work happening on displaying artwork image
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623971> on the virtual
control interface (SMTC/MPRIS)
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Landed support <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639409>
for decoding AVIF images with the dav1d decoder, behind pref
image.avif.use-dav1d
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Continued work on upgrading exoplayer
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628792> to newer
version
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DOM [Adam Stevenson]
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A lot happening in the Editor and Selection areas
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Reviewing and closing several old bugs
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldfrom=-1ws&o1=notsubstring&v3=intermittent&known_name=DOM%20Core-P1&emaillongdesc1=1&query_format=advanced&chfieldvalue=RESOLVED&component=DOM%3A%20Editor&component=DOM%3A%20HTML%20Parser&component=DOM%3A%20Selection&component=DOM%3A%20Serializers&f1=flagtypes.name&f7=status_whiteboard&f2=cf_tracking_e10s&chfieldto=Now&o6=notsubstring&o5=notsubstring&f6=keywords&f5=short_desc&o7=notsubstring&o2=notequals&o4=notsubstring&v2=%20&classification=Components&product=Core&chfield=bug_status&list_id=15268307&query_based_on=DOM%20Core-P1&emailtype1=exact&v5=%5Bwpt-syn&f4=status_whiteboard&f3=short_desc&email1=krosylight%40mozilla.com&o3=notsubstring>
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Table copying feature testing
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Significant clean-up to unblock “beforeinput event”
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Fission UI events & Focus management
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Performance improvement
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Made clearTimeout() O(1)
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615564>
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Progress on dialog-element
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=dialog-element>
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Standards work
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Storage-partitioning is ongoing, an introduction
<https://github.com/privacycg/storage-partitioning> has been
written
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Workers and Storage [Adam Stevenson]
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Landed `Response`s provided by service workers must respect COOP/COEP
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575095>
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reSAB looks positive. Only a couple more patches, some review and
bug/test fixing away from ready to ship.
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Work to Support IndexedDB in Private Browsing Mode (with encrypted
disk storage) ongoing
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=idb-private-browsing>.
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JavaScript [Mike Conca]
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Laid out plans for remaining Stage 3 JS features for H2
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RegExp named groups landed in 78 (big feature for webcompat)
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WebAssembly [Mike Conca]
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Multi-value and big-ints riding trains to 78
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WeakRefs enabled in 79
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Networking [Mike Conca]
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Targeting re-enabling HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Nightly 80
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Targeting disabling of AppCache for Fx79
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Preload now enabled by default on Nightly and early Beta
Mike Conca
Group Product Manager, Firefox Web Technologies
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