12.08.08

Camino 2008 Week 49

Posted in Camino at 1:55 am by Smokey

We continued moving again last week, and Camino 2.0 Beta 1 is now on the horizon.

• Stuart Morgan opened and closed the week with a round of reviews and super-reviews (spawning a patch-landing party on Saturday), hit a dead-endNS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED in our attempt to display user-added certificate exceptions, and fixed a problem with blank Tab Overview thumbnails for XML-like pages. He and Sean Murphy also tag-teamed on a patch to support starting to drag background tabs with a single click; hopefully the patch will land early this week.
• Sean Murphy worked on the aforementioned dragging patch this week, and he also performed several reviews.
• Christopher Henderson was busy with his current favorite topics of the location bar, autocomplete window, and site icons, working on several patches and having others landed. URLs with non-Roman script fragments in them now show up as unescaped UTF-8 in the autocomplete window, the BBC site icon is no longer blurry, and it’s now possible to press the down arrow to display the search field menus (if the cursor is already at the right end of the field), all thanks to patches from Christopher that landed over the weekend. He also mocked up some code that would allow for displaying thumbnail previews when hovering over the tab bar.
• Jeff Dlouhy dropped off a patch for a fade-in effect when Tab Overview thumbnails are loading, performed a number of reviews, and found a minor polish bug in the new tab dragging feature.
• Ilya Sherman continued his trip through the review gauntlet with his download manager patches, responding to comments and spinning new patches. The first of the patches is now awaiting super-review.
• Bryan Atwood returned this week with a new version of his patch to add a Flashblock whitelist to Camino; it’s currently awaiting review.
• Markus Magnuson, our Swedish localizer, filed a couple of bugs on odd .nib/.strings instances he had found and he produced a patch for one of them.
• Philippe Wittenbergh continued working on new toolbar icons for full content zoom, producing more than a dozen different variations(!) to respond to our comments and ill-defined specifications.
• Chris Lawson’s patch to improve our discovery of feeds (and, conversely, to stop discovering P3P files as feeds!) landed this week, bringing Camino’s behavior in line with other browsers. He also worked on a couple of smaller patches during the week.
• In between a lovely cold and the rest of life, I developed a patch to fix a bug in our AppleScript dictionary in Camino 2 (thanks in large part to superb code comments left by Peter Jaros, who also performed the patch review), created a small patch to remove some old MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH #ifdefs, and continued to triage the list of bugs nominated to block Camino 2.0 Beta 1. It was also a fun week to be in QA, as I filed several new bugs I discovered during Saturday’s patch-landing party.

It was a pretty busy week for the whole team, and the work carried us several steps closer to the next milestone release on the road to Camino 2. Though we’ll surely slow down again as the holidays approach, we do hope to have Camino 2.0 Beta 1 out soon, as our fearless leader noted at the beginning of last week.

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