08.23.09

August 19, 2009

Posted in Life at 1:14 am by

Dorothy Anna Ardisson
August 20, 1917–August 15, 2009
Flag Flying In Memory Of
Twin Valley Cemetery, Delmont, PA, August 19, 2009

08.10.09

Camino 2009 Week 31-32

Posted in Camino at 1:41 am by

We continued to make good progress towards Camino 2.0 Beta 4 during the past two weeks. We’re not there yet, but we’re closer!

  • In addition taking lead on the super-review queue, Stuart Morgan upgraded our version of Breakpad, landed his patch to make us pull folder icons from the system on Mac OS X 10.5, and removed the old Carbon font name-based menus from the Advanced sheet in the Appearance preferences.
  • Sean Murphy continued working on the forthcoming safebrowsing feature, reworking how we cache the list of sites that are displaying the blocked site overlay and fixing some configuration parameters.
  • Christopher Henderson continued to work on his zoom and UTF-8 in bookmarks URLs patches. His patch to add a text size-only toggle landed last week, and he also worked on changes to the Appearance preference pane that would allow us to remove the Advanced sheet entirely. Christopher also put together some JavaScript key handling code for our blocked site overlay rewrite.
  • Summer of Code hacker Dan Weber continued working on autocomplete performance problems with large history databases. He also posted a patch to smartly truncate URLs in the autocomplete window (and his blog is now appearing on Camino Planet!).
  • Philippe Wittenbergh shepherded a Mac OS X 10.5 facelift for the Bookmark Bar and tab bar during the past few weeks. After the initial landings, he has continued to tweak every pixel that any of us have found not to be “just right.” Philippe also helped me with CSS debugging for the blocked site overlay rewrite, and he fixed a nasty ad-blocking problem on lastfm.de.
  • During the last two weeks, I worked on polishing the UI of the blocked site overlay, with help from Philippe and Christopher. I also fixed a long-standing (but just discovered) regression in sending the accept-charset header, landed the latest ad-blocking updates, and did a little bit of website work. In addition, I’ve been tracking the changes for the upcoming Gecko 1.8.1.x security release and working to make sure Camino would be green after the major changes were done.

That’s it for the past two weeks. Everyone has been working diligently on their remaining feature bugs and localization-related changes, and I’m cautiously optimistic that I’ll be able to mention a Camino 2.0 Beta 4 release (or release candidate) by the next update.