06.29.09

Camino 2009 Week 24-26

Posted in Camino at 12:54 am by Smokey

The last few weeks feel like they’ve been crazy on my end, but I’m back with another Camino update.

• Last Monday we released Camino 1.6.8 in sync with the latest Gecko 1.8.1.x security release, and we shipped Simplified Chinese in the Multilingual version for the first time since Camino 0.8.5.
• Stuart Morgan has been taking the lead on performing reviews and super-reviews, but he also found time to reverse-engineer the pinch gesture on multi-touch trackpads.
• Sean Murphy produced a couple of revisions of his patch to fix CJK font selection in the main window of the Fonts tab of the Appearance preference pane, which is the first step towards allowing us to finally remove the Advanced sheet in that pane. He also posted a new patch for the notification bar that appears when clicking through a phishing or malware warning; the patch is currently waiting on super-review. Sean also handed Jeff Dlouhy an r- on his Quick Look patch.
• Christopher Henderson continued working on UTF-8 URLs in the Bookmarks Manager, and he also posted a patch to switch the way our zoom menu items work in order to more closely align with the behavior of other browsers.
• Summer of Code hacker Dan Weber’s first patch, which changes the appearance of the autocomplete window, is now awaiting super-review. He has also been working on hooking bookmark URLs up to autocomplete, which should be ready for super-review after spinning a new patch.
• Most of my Camino time over the past few weeks has been spent on release work and on liaising with the caminol10n project; because of our dedicated localizers, there are lots of exciting things happening these days for speakers of other-than-English. When not focusing on those, I’ve fixed a couple of minor localization-related bugs, touched up the website, and I recently spun an oh-so-glamorous patch to fix the capitalization of “Flashblock” throughout the Camino codebase.

Summer’s in full swing now, it’s hot, and people move slowly in the heat but we’re continuing to press forward towards 2.0 Beta 4 and the much-anticipated Camino 2 release.

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