On 2015-09-15 10:47 AM, Paul Rouget wrote:
Other parts of the web platforms usually have a reference: the
specification. So there’s a minimal documentation already available.
Which is not the case with the API with no standardization efforts,
like the Browser API.
And we can’t use
On 2015-09-15 7:31 AM, Paul Rouget wrote:
I believe the WebIDL files should play this role. But they are missing
comments and events.
WebIDL files are not a suitable place for documentation to live, since
they require review from DOM peers who are typically overloaded
individuals, and it
FWIW, I was involved in one of these bugs (bug 1185239). It is
completely unbelievable to me that we seem to not have a single test
that was broken by a change that would introduce a startup crash with an
existing profile.
As Kyle mentioned, it would be nice if someone worked on adding
On 2015-07-27 3:03 PM, Naoki Hirata wrote:
It appears that Mochitests are disabled for KK and L for b2g :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1186965#c27
I agree that we do need to get this fixed.
If you read my comment more carefully, I am talking about running builds
on an existing
Yeah, the lack of the security UX is one issue. The other is that we
are aware of issues in the API (see
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/datastore for the notes from the last
meeting that we had on this) but so far nobody has had the time to work
on those issues.
I haven't followed the recent
On 2015-01-23 1:18 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
On 01/23/2015 10:26 AM, an wrote:
There seems to not be an API for adding controls for music players
and such on the lock screen, I just found a player with features not
found in the stock app but also no ability to control it from the
lock screen
On 2014-12-11 11:12 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote:
Isn't that the same issue as Web Activities/Web Intents?
Not really. The use cases around web activities/intents are mostly
around user facing interactions (for example, opening a file in a web
application, or using a web application
On 2014-12-10 12:21 AM, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
(cross posted dev.b2g since this seems very relevant to it, but please keep
the discussion on dev.platform)
Hi All,
As part of the ServiceWorker initiative [1], Google is proposing a
`navigator.connect` API [2] to allow cross-origin ServiceWorker
On 2014-12-10 2:46 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote:
The downside of this approach is of course relying on the service providers
to get their SWs registered, which may require the user to navigate to the
service provider's
On 2014-11-24 8:49 AM, Tim Chien wrote:
Hi,
I didn't find any documentation so that I figured I should ask. So in
bug 1103574 I changed the Keyboard app so that it would start using
Web Audio API instead of multiple audio to play that clicker sound,
but doing so I would hold an AudioContext
On 2014-09-26, 3:18 AM, Alive wrote:
Hi folks,
During the cleanup work of gaia system app[1], I found that nearly every module
inside system app (and so many other apps),
is using a shared library called SettingsListener[2] to help it deal with
read/write/observe settings. This is nothing
On 2014-09-26, 5:20 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
Also currently mozSettings.createLock().get()/set() doesn't smell nice. A
promise is something developer wants.
It'd be nice if we have read/write without creating a lock and maintain on
our own.[4]
```js
On 2014-09-08, 12:28 PM, Josh Hoff wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 10:15:57AM +0200, Frederik Braun wrote:
On 08.09.2014 10:05, Jonas Sicking wrote:
Or is the idea to turn on the LED to indicate pending notifications?
And leave it on (or leave it blinking) until the user interacts with
the
On 2014-08-20, 12:56 PM, Kyle Machulis wrote:
Yeah, we'll want to update docs once things are landed (Currently doing the
revert/revertrevert/revertrevertrevert shuffle on b2g-i due to some very weird
issues). The new event will definitely need documentation too. Should I file a
bug on this?
On 2014-08-19, 4:50 AM, Aaron Cajes (Mozilla PHL) wrote:
Hi there,
Just wondering if there is an existing WebAPI to access the Device Info
(Ex. Device Model Name, IMEI number, etc) in a Firefox OS based phone.
It doesn't matter if the API is for Certified application, i just wondering
if an
On 2014-08-02, 8:05 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
Hi All,
We have many times debated how to handle engineering mode. Various
partners have so far been adding in custom solutions on their own
branches, but it would be good to find a better solution.
Below is one proposed solution, though I'm
On 2014-06-18, 9:36 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for writing this up, Jonas!
Here are a couple of questions:
1. If we only allow access to privileged APIs to resources that are served
from the package source
I finally managed to enable unified builds on b2g. The tl;dr is that they
give you faster builds (hopefully around twice as fast) for Gecko the next
time that you update gaia and gonk-misc to master.
The slightly longer version is that the build system will group C++ source
files defined in
I also meant to add that you can opt out of unified builds locally by
setting MOZ_NON_UNIFIED in your .userconfig.
--
Ehsan
http://ehsanakhgari.org/
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com
wrote:
I finally managed to enable unified builds on b2g. The tl;dr
the idea since I think it could be
something very interesting to implement in the future.
Congratulations for your work!! Firefox is becoming a great OS!! ;)
2014-04-25 23:58 GMT+02:00 Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com:
The current way of turning wifi on or off is through the settings
On 2014-04-29, 10:10 AM, Gabriele Svelto wrote:
On 28/04/2014 16:25, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
I thought that b2g builds do not use unified builds. Has that changed?
No they're not, turns out I was wrong. There doesn't seem to have been
much action on bug 950676 [1] either. Is this just a matter
On 2014-04-29, 3:40 PM, Gabriele Svelto wrote:
On 29/04/2014 20:19, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
See bug 942167 please. I don't really understand all of the intricacies
of how the b2g and gecko build systems talk to each other, but there is
some information in that bug which might be useful. (FWIW I
I thought that b2g builds do not use unified builds. Has that changed?
On 2014-04-28, 9:42 AM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote:
Nice, thanks! Can you clarify what effect, if any, exporting the
MAKE_FLAGS and/or GECKO_MAKE_FLAGS variables in a .userconfig will have
now?
kats
On 28/4/2014, 2:10,
Hi everyone,
As many of you are already aware, we have been working hard towards making
it possible to express our Web facing Javascript APIs in WebIDL. These
.webidl files can be found under dom/webidl in mozilla-central. Over the
past few years we have been trying to be more aware and
in the
commit message.
The rest of this proposal remains intact!
Cheers,
--
Ehsan
http://ehsanakhgari.org/
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi everyone,
As many of you are already aware, we have been working hard towards making
it possible to express
There is also an *awesome* Thunderbird extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/bugzilla-helper/ that
lets you add a Product and Component view to the treeview of your emails to
quickly be able to tell which bug is in which component. It also lets you
respond to bugs directly
On 2014-04-15, 3:28 AM, Axel Hecht wrote:
On 4/15/14, 7:58 AM, Fabrice Desré wrote:
Fortunately that's actually simple: we can just use a web activity that
will be provided by the settings or system app, and then do the usual
setting - gecko pref mapping.
Technical detail, I don't think that
The last time I asked about this, people told me that our partners won't
necessarily update the toolchain they use for the ICS builds so we would
have to stick with whatever toolchain they're using. Has that changed?
Cheers,
Ehsan
On 2014-03-14, 7:04 PM, Andreas Gal wrote:
We should update
(Follow-ups to dev.platform please)
Our Firefox OS partners occasionally need to expose new APIs to Firefox OS
devices for things such as testing and diagnostics purposes. We should try
to make doing that easier and less error prone to ensure fewer ways of
making mistakes which would lead to the
On 12/17/2013, 11:57 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:
On 12/17/13, 6:49 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
A few years ago I spent quite some time investigating our intermittent
oranges in the tests living on mozilla-central, and in the process I
ended up fixing a lot of bad patterns in our tests. Using
A few years ago I spent quite some time investigating our intermittent
oranges in the tests living on mozilla-central, and in the process I
ended up fixing a lot of bad patterns in our tests. Using setTimeout's
like this is definitely one of them.
I wrote this article
I just finished this work. https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central will
not be updated any more, and I will replace its content with a short notice
explaining the situation on Monday.
Cheers,
--
Ehsan
http://ehsanakhgari.org/
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg
of knowing about this change.
If you haven't done already, *please* take a few minutes to do this right
now. If you hit problems, please ping me over email or IRC, or hop on #git.
Thanks!
--
Ehsan
http://ehsanakhgari.org/
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.comwrote
,
--
Ehsan
http://ehsanakhgari.org/
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
For the past two and a half years I have been maintaining a git mirror of
mozilla-central plus a lot of the other branches that people found useful
at https://github.com
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Benoit Girard bgir...@mozilla.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.comwrote:
Yes, that's fair. In the world of DOM APIs, we sometimes do this for
other reasons though, either because of time pressure to ship, or because
patch on
bug 946646, we can move @StevenLee's engineer resource to other topic.
Best Regards,
Shih-Chiang Chien
Mozilla Taiwan
On Dec 7, 2013, at 1:48 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com
mailto:ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote:
FWIW we briefly discussed adding
.
Cheers,
Ehsan
On 12/6/2013, 1:55 AM, janjongb...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah I wrote the gonk part yesterday after I realized that :p
On Dec 5, 2013 11:31 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/4/2013, 3:58 PM, Fabrice Desré wrote:
On 12/04/2013 08:50 AM, Jan Jongboom wrote:
I'm
questions to answer, this is
something that we are interested in perusing. At this point, due to a
significant number of unknowns, there is no target release specified for these
features.
Thanks,
Adam
- Original Message -
From: Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com
To: Alive al
On 12/6/2013, 1:28 PM, Adam Rogers wrote:
Hi Ehsan,
Formal discussions have not started yet, but I have been taking notes on
threads like this. I'm happy to include you in the meetings as we move to
formalize the ideas into actions.
Yeah, I'm somewhat interested in this, so I'd
On 12/4/2013, 3:58 PM, Fabrice Desré wrote:
On 12/04/2013 08:50 AM, Jan Jongboom wrote:
I'm trying to copy some stuff from a frame script, so I do:
let clipboard = Components.classes[@mozilla.org/widget/clipboardhelper;1]
On 12/5/2013, 3:20 AM, Alive wrote:
Hi folks,
I'd like to have a password manager inside our operating system to store and
manage passwords you'd typed in the FxOS.
This is an old item in my mind beyond FxOS v1.0 when I sadly found our phone
crashed when we visited mozilla phonebook.
On 12/3/2013, 6:02 PM, Benoit Girard wrote:
At this point we're leaning towards exposing it to all of b2g however I
don't expect this property to be widely used outside of gaia. We have 3
options, (1) Wait until the spec is ready and miss out on important
performance improvements (2) Expose it
On 12/4/2013, 11:56 AM, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
Le 04/12/2013 17:26, Ehsan Akhgari a écrit :
On 12/3/2013, 6:02 PM, Benoit Girard wrote:
At this point we're leaning towards exposing it to all of b2g however I
don't expect this property to be widely used outside of gaia. We have 3
options, (1
On 12/3/2013, 4:25 PM, Benoit Girard wrote:
In bug 940842 I started investigating adding a new CSS property
'will-animate' to let authors give better descriptions of their intents
instead of relying on our complicated, and unpredictable, internal
heuristics. The better the platform can
is also on
git.mozilla.org, so should the same thing happen there, we have more
options.
If you require support to switch, let's take over #git and see if we can
figure this out together.
On 11/25/13 7:39 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
Dear all,
For the past two and a half years I have been maintaining
On 11/26/2013, 2:13 PM, Juan Gómez wrote:
Well, I have a fork of mozilla/mozilla-central and it is not disabled. I
can push commits, browse it via web or clone it.
Anyway, What do you suggest? moving to git.mozilla.org
http://git.mozilla.org instead of github/gecko-dev?
That problem was
Dear all,
For the past two and a half years I have been maintaining a git mirror of
mozilla-central plus a lot of the other branches that people found useful
at https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central. Over the years this proved
to be too much work for me to keep up with, and given the
Is this on ICS or JB? Reading this code, I think the JB code path ends
up here
http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/widget/gonk/libdisplay/GonkDisplayJB.cpp#153
which seems like it's turning the screen on and off. However, the ICS
version of this function
On 2013-10-13 11:56 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
I think the only platform pieces that are really missing is the
ability to directly set a ringtone. Especially now that we have
WebAudio landed (has it been uploaded to v1.2?) that should make some
of the above even easier I think.
Yes, Web Auudio
On 2013-09-28 1:40 AM, potatosculp...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to come up with a plan on how we should create a text
selection/caret navigation UI for Firefox OS. On desktop platforms, we
mimic the text selection/caret appearance and behavior of the underlying OS
to a good extent (except on
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to come up with a plan on how we should create a text
selection/caret navigation UI for Firefox OS. On desktop platforms, we
mimic the text selection/caret appearance and behavior of the underlying OS
to a good extent (except on Mac OS X where we don't implement the
None of this has helped unfortunately. I think I'm going to bite the
bullet and reclone after wasting a few days hoping that somebody would
know how to get me out of this mess. :/
Ehsan
On 2013-08-12 7:52 PM, Jed Davis wrote:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 06:20:44PM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote
Actually, Sotaro suggested that I should justy rm -rf the bad
directories and that made ./repo sync happy again!
On 2013-08-15 3:19 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
None of this has helped unfortunately. I think I'm going to bite the
bullet and reclone after wasting a few days hoping that somebody
I tried asking on #b2g but didn't get an answer. I am trying to config my
build for the inari device, and I get this error during repo sync (which
runs as part of config.sh):
ehsan@teenux:~/moz/b2g$ ./repo sync -l
Syncing work tree: 100% (96/96), done.
frameworks/base/: discarding 1582 commits
Thanks for the reply!
On 2013-08-12 2:40 PM, Dave Hylands wrote:
Hi Ehsan,
Someone else (jlebar perhaps?) ran into this from switching between devices
while in the same tree.
I think that this should be a bug.
To cleanup, I'd probably abort the git changes, and then cd into the directory
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Mounir Lamouri mou...@lamouri.fr wrote:
On 08/08/13 02:08, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Mounir Lamouri mou...@lamouri.fr
wrote:
I believe that having this handled by the system would lead to a better
user experience because
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Mounir Lamouri mou...@lamouri.fr wrote:
I believe that having this handled by the system would lead to a better
user experience because as a user I would be able to say that any
notification should just vibrate and do a low volume sound for example.
We could
On 2013-07-30 12:35 PM, Jonathan Griffin wrote:
More recently, the tests seem to have fallen over due to
infrastructure issues. I've filed a bug to fix the infrastructure
issues (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899392); after
this is fixed we'll be in a better position to determine
On 2013-02-13 9:36 PM, Justin Lebar wrote:
If you're using hg, here are instructions for cloning b2g18-v1_0_1
quickly, given another existing Gecko clone:
http://jlebar.com/2011/5/20/Faster_and_smaller_clones_of_branches.html
In other news, I think Ehsan is on vacation this week, so
the above decisions or
process.
-Alex
On Oct 2, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
Has there been a call on which version of Gecko b2g v1 will be based on?
We need to know whether we can backout bug 722845 on 18 after the uplift
to Aurora until we fix bug
Hi all,
Has there been a call on which version of Gecko b2g v1 will be based on?
We need to know whether we can backout bug 722845 on 18 after the
uplift to Aurora until we fix bug 787743 on trunk, and in order to make
that call we need to know whether b2g will be shipping off of Gecko 18
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