Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Currently, kitkat and lollipop (once it’s up and running) devices with hardware composer are the target. We won’t break other platforms, but we’re not actively going after jellybean... — - Milan On Jan 27, 2015, at 8:22 , Christopher Lord wrote: > Is there a bug tracking the jb issues / do

Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Hi Chris, Thanks for reminding me about that. I filed bug 1126373 to disable silk on Jelly Bean and below devices. Mason > On Jan 27, 2015, at 5:22 AM, Christopher Lord wrote: > > Is there a bug tracking the jb issues / do we still enabl

Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Is there a bug tracking the jb issues / do we still enable it on jb devices, even with the known issues? Do we intend to get it working on jb, or is that out of scope? I tried enabling it on my jb Open C and indeed, I did see the occasional hard-lock (screen froze, buttons stop working, current so

Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Congratulations! It's very interesting and quite good idea. It remembers the way in which games produce better results in a traditional PC game. :) On 26/01/15 23:50, Eric Shepherd (Sheppy) wrote: Oh yes, you're right. That said, of course, "smoothness" is something all app developers should be

Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Oh yes, you're right. That said, of course, "smoothness" is something all app developers should be shooting for, so it might be worth adding a whole new section just with tips on how to be smooth. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Milan Sreckovic wrote: > Valid point, and something we should be d

Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Valid point, and something we should be doing, but just to be sure - Silk is about “smoothness”, rather than “performance”. In other words, the claim is that, say, 50 well placed frames are better than 60 poorly spaced frames. You may have heard the term “frame uniformity” being bounced around

Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Also, if you (or anyone) have any tips for maximizing graphics performance in Firefox OS apps, please let me know. I'd like to keep collecting these to put on MDN. In particular, these pages should have any ideas you have added to them as appropriate (you can do it, or you can send ideas to me or

Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

This is a huge deal! Thrilled to see this happening! On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Mason Chang wrote: > Hi all, > > Silk, which is a project to improve smoothness across Firefox OS has > started to land. There are three parts to it, which you can read more about > here (http://www.masonchang.

Re: [b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Awesome, really thrilled for this! Thanks to all who are taking this on. On Jan 26, 2015 11:07 AM, "Mason Chang" wrote: > Hi all, > > Silk, which is a project to improve smoothness across Firefox OS has > started to land. There are three parts to it, which you can read more about > here (http://w

[b2g] Project Silk: Smoother Firefox OS Landing

Hi all, Silk, which is a project to improve smoothness across Firefox OS has started to land. There are three parts to it, which you can read more about here (http://www.masonchang.com/blog/2015/1/22/project-silk ). Today, I just enabled t