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maintained by Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@mozilla.org >
Last Updated Monday, December 6, 1999
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Friends of the Tree
A big thanks to zach@math.berkeley.edu for
submitting such great bug reports and helping in
improving mail! -- Lisa Chiang
Yes, seconded. He's submitted 31 bugs so far!
-- Phil Peterson
Enabled configurable security policies. These allow users to group
sites under a named policy and then set what actions sites from that
policy will be able to do. See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/configPolicy.html .
Highlights
Eric Vaughan fixed enough of the known GFX scrollbar bugs to be able to
turn them on by default, which of course uncovered several more previously
unknown bugs. He also worked with Rod Spears to change the list box
to use GFX scrollbars. (evaughan, rods)
David Hyatt implemented skin switching and locale switching on a
per-profile basis. He also wrote up some new doc on how to write
CSS and
XUL to be skinnable (posted only on XPFE newsgroup as Skins
Doc right now). Dave has windows refreshing when skins change
too, but wasn't able to check it in due to tree closure just before the
holiday. (hyatt)
The XPToolkit team resolved 26 bugs in the last week, fixing 11 of them.
See our resolved
bug list below for details.
Priorities
(current open bugs prefixed
with a *)
pinkerton: * 9701
nsWebShell Need to set focus in new windows
18409 Pasting
from clipboard causes extraneous characters
19571 dragging
text/plain data sometimes has garbage
danm: *13695
Window close box needs to call JS close routines
*18518 Need
support for notification when a window has received something new
saari: *19268
Focus problem with iframe breaking Delete button
Unblock mjudge with an ESM change, expose currently
focused PresContext.
hyatt: Fixing all of our unskinnable XUL and CSS: *19555 *19556
*19557 19558
19560
19561
The skin switching UI (now that the code is in)
evaughan: *Finish GFX listbox work. Currently trying to get them up and
running, then plans to pass them back to RodS to finish.
*19376 problems
making new bugs with gfx scrollbars
*19142
Styles broken with gfx scrollbars
sdagley: 17949
nsIFile not implemented.
People
Stuart Parmenter and Steve Dagley were on vacation this week, both returning
next week. (pavlov, sdagley)
Highlights
Eric Vaughan (evaughan):
Fixed 6 PDT+ bugs.
Mike Pinkerton (pinkerton):
Checked in a temp fix for drags w/in ender leaking out to the world, but
kicked bug back to buster because of Ender-specific weirdness/problems.
Added setDataWithLength() to nsISupports[W]String to better streamline
semantics of when clipboard/d&d data is null terminated.
Mac/Win32 now convert platform line endings to dom line endings on d&d/clipboard.
Fixed 5 bugs, one a PDT+.
Stuart Parmenter (pavlov):
Made scrolling significantly faster (with Brendan Eich).
Worked with Patrick Beard to resolve issues of overpainting areas
Fixed 5 PDT+ bugs.
Chris Saari (saari):
Fixed 4 bugs, one a PDT+.
David Hyatt (hyatt):
Implemented enumeration of installed skins, packages, and locales.
Improved tree scrolling a bit (incremental progress on PDT+
bug 9489).
Daniel Matejka (danm): Fixed some more window-closing bugs, one PDT+.
Steve Dagley (sdagley):
Fixed 1 PDT+ bug
The XPToolkit team resolved 50
bugs in the last week, fixing these 31:
ID
Owner
Summary
20538
danm
Can't close windows
13695
danm
[DOGFOOD] Window close box needs to call JS close routines
14782
evaughan
[dogfood] mousing over links causes massive reflows when sta
18877
evaughan
[dogfood] Crasher: Travelocity login
19541
evaughan
[Dogfood] Browser jumps to top of page seconds after scrolli
19376
evaughan
[DOGFOOD] problems making new bugs with gfx scrollbars turne
20161
evaughan
[DOGFOOD]Crashing in delete in nsBoxFrame
19736
evaughan
[DOGFOOD] Die and exit in nsBoxInfo destructor
4799
evaughan
scrollbar drag doesn't extend to side
13571
evaughan
[PP] Layout/springs problems in pref panels
12687
hyatt
sched: need component specific chrome registry support
17731
hyatt
crash closing bookmarks window after scrolling
12146
hyatt
[xpmenu] crash on exit processing straggling key event
20354
hyatt
[Tree Regression] When resizing the columns only headers get
19572
pavlov
[DOGFOOD] Scrolling is really screwed up
4290
pavlov
MLK: 40 bytes leaked- nsRegionGTK from nsViewManager
20209
pavlov
[DOGFOOD] https: crashes on phonebook
11101
pavlov
[DOGFOOD] Garbage bits under XP menus
17062
pavlov
[PP][perf][DOGFOOD]IMAP and POP performance in has regressed
13131
pavlov
repainting everything between progressmeter and throbber
13407
pavlov
[DOGFOOD] gfx text fields scramble when scrolling
18409
pinkerton
[Dogfood] Pasting from clipboard causes extraneous character
20066
pinkerton
sched: Rewrite null termination semantics for clipboard/D&D
19571
pinkerton
dragging or copying text/plain data sometimes has garbage at
19542
pinkerton
[DOGFOOD] [CRASH] Changing order of bookmarks crashes browse
20449
pinkerton
[Mac] scrolling of fixed positioned elements is broken
18905
saari
[CRASH] Pressing ENTER key crashes browser
17385
saari
opening this URL causes JavaScript failure on WinNT SP#4 usi
14476
saari
Context menus pop up in wrong location
18983
saari
[DOGFOOD] html forms picking up carets for each field with t
20558
sdagley
pr_Mac_LoadIndexedFragment calls pr_UnlockedFindLibrary() wi
Lowlights
Changing requirements and XP interfaces have delayed Steve Dagley's
implementation of nsLocalFileMac (formerly known as nsIFile for Mac).
Priorities
(current open bugs prefixed
with a *)
pinkerton:
*20228 Can't
change locale provider with the registry.rdf'
Help with or take any open PDT+ bugs.
danm:
* 18005 Leave
mail window for a long time, GetMsg, crash
Help with or take any open PDT+ bugs.
saari:
*20225
Need focus from eventstatemanager
19268
Focus problem with iframe breaking Delete button in Mail
18222
Paste into form pastes to wrong place
20519
key events getting through to editor key listener
hyatt:
* Implement an arena + recyclers for nsFrames (should help tree
scrolling) 9489
tree scrolling through msg thread is slow
evaughan:
*12122 overflow
property within XUL == disappearing content
Finish gfx-based listbox work (PorkJockeys)
sdagley:
* 17949
nsIFile not implemented
Help with or take any open PDT+ bugs.
pavlov:
Mousewheel support is now done in windows.
We have some new documents on the web site.
From Matthew Tuck matty@box.net.au a list of
commonly requested features compiled from the
wishlist newgroup.
http://www.mozilla.org/wishlist-faq.html
From Daniel Howard dhoward@mountbromo.com
a map of the source tree describing the contents of
each directory in the seamonkey tree. and from
Hervé Renault hrenault@pratique.fr , a French
translation of this document.
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/source-directories-overview.html
From Matthew Thomas mpt@mailandnews.com ,
a new, improved front page for bugzilla.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
From Tina Ornduff ornduff@netscape.com , an
updated version of the Mozilla Plugin API guide.
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/plugin.html
Mac and windows both have installers now.
Highlights
Fixed 41
bugs
Posted results
of weekly UI meeting
Candice Huang back from sabbatical, so we're at full strength again
Ben Bucksch continues to be a
friend of the mail/news tree. This week, he and rhp are landing code for
19251 .
Sspitzer to land code which changes our folder picker to use a <menu>
instead of a <select> which should make our folder menus much better.
Priorities
Fix remaining dogfood
stopper bugs (currently 11). If you haven't marked a date for completion
in the status whiteboard, please do so.
Ramp down PorkJockey architecture work now that we're at M12.
M12
bugs which are not dogfood will be pushed out on Monday. M12 checkin
deadline is Tuesday 12/7 at 11:59pm
davidmc - 10837
Import tool for 4.x address books
bienvenu - 20607
Can't see messages in Inbox, part-time on 19165
Crash starting application
alecf - 20508
Crash after expanding folders and scrolling, 20608
Second account suddenly gone
jefft - 20230
Subject, Sender, date columns are messed up, 20312
Mozilla Mail stalls on specified popmail spool
rhp - 20564
Clicking in thread pane crashes, Helping to land 19251
Improve URL recognizer for mail messages
mscott - 20546
Can't load a message in the message pane, 14928
URL dispatching
sspitzer - 15483
Problems disabling remember password, 20656
Problems migrating news servers
hangas - 15127
Command updating and dispatching
putterman - 20634
Thread view out of sync, 20607
Can't see new messages in Inbox
chuang - going to pick up some dogfood bugs on Monday
ducarroz - 20614
Compose window can't be closed after using address picker
Lowlights
Regressions (like 20707 )
continue to cost a lot of time, but the mail/news sheriffs are staying
on top of the problems.
Cleaned up a lot of code this week after the superwin landing.
Fixed some leaks that were introduced at that time of widgets that
were never refcounted down because they Destroy signal was missed.
Closed the following bugs:
Client crashes if you close a dialog in its JS onload handler. bug #19302 ( blizzard )
Japanese characters you are typing cannot be seen. bug #15496 ( erik )
Window close box needs to call JS close routines. bug #13695 ( danm )
repainting everything between progressmeter and throbber. bug #13131 ( pavlov, beard )
need consistent shortcuts for accessing threads. bug #18078 ( dougt )
bugzilla query page looks terrible. bug #18801 ( blizzard )
The following bugs are still open:
Linux D&D - Start/End Drag bug #9632 ( blizzard )
GTKMozilla in webshell/embed/gtk is busted. bug #20396 ( blizzard )
Copy and Folder scroll bar is not responsive. bug #20536 ( blizzard )
Performance is always on the radar on linux, there's still a lot of
cleanup that has to happen before M12 especially with scrolling
performance.
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