Can we remove nsIEntityConverter?

2016-04-30 Thread Henri Sivonen
We ship data tables for converting from Unicode to HTML entities. These tables obviously take space. (They are not optimized for space usage, either.) As far as I can tell, these tables are not used at all in Fennec. In desktop Firefox, these data tables are used only for the MathML View Source fea

Re: ICU proposing to drop support for WinXP (and OS X 10.6)

2016-04-30 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
It's natural that engineers in different parts of the organisation and community will have different priorities. Let's all take a deep breath and keep the discussion calm, please. Nick On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 1:30 AM, wrote: > On Friday, April 29, 2016 at 2:44:25 AM UTC-5, Henri Sivonen wrote:

Re: ICU proposing to drop support for WinXP (and OS X 10.6)

2016-04-30 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2016-04-29 10:43 +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Jeff Walden wrote: > > On 04/28/2016 10:00 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > >> Thoughts? > > > > Another option is to ship a WinXP-specific Firefox build that doesn't > > provide ICU and ECMAScript's Intl functiona

Re: Can we remove nsIEntityConverter?

2016-04-30 Thread smaug
On 04/30/2016 06:25 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: We ship data tables for converting from Unicode to HTML entities. These tables obviously take space. (They are not optimized for space usage, either.) As far as I can tell, these tables are not used at all in Fennec. In desktop Firefox, these data tabl