ARM/N900/Browser

Revision as of 10:57, 8 April 2011

Browser and WLAN for Meego 1.2 N900 Developer Edition

The team contributes to making Intenet browsing experience great on N900 MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition.

Target is to utilize existing Fennec port to meego in Developer Edition and we will collaborate with the existing team. However, if it looks like that Fennec does not meet performance requirements, we will consider having also an alternative browser in Developer Edition.

The team

Communications

All this work for Meego 1.2 N900 Developer Edition will happen in open in meego.com. There is a project wikipage.

As the project is open, the communications are also open. Project communications will mainly happen in public IRC and public mailing lists, and meego.com wiki. We do planning on meego.com wiki and featurezilla. Meego.com bugzilla will be used for bugs. We are welcoming contributions and participation from community.

• Team synchronisation meetings are held in #meego-meeting on irc.freenode.net every Friday at 10.00 EEST (9.00 CEST, 7.00 UTC).
  • Minutes available
• #meego-arm IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (IRC channel logs)
• This wiki area
• meego-handset@meego.com mailing list, please prefix with 'N900' for team related topics.

Targets

• Browser performance
  • Startup time
  • Scrolling FPS
  • JS benchmarks (sunspider, v8, dromaeo)
• Browser features
  • Modern websites like gmail works
• Connectivity
  • Easy to connect to Internet

Status

• DE blocker bugs
• All N900 bugs
• Upstream bugs

Task List

• Investigate Fennec startup (Stefan)
  • Measure fennec startup time
  • Profile Fennec startup
  • Investigate prestarting fennec
• Other Fennec performance (Casey)
  • Measure FPS of scrolling
  • Profile scrolling
  • Check JS benchmarks
  • Check performance of mobile firefox beta on Maemo5 to get comparison figures (Vesku)
• Check Browser alterantives and report to Browser alternatives
  • Eigo (OrangeMobileBrowser)
  • Jari (Chrome)
• Connectivity (Janne)
  • Report experiences with N900 and connectivity to here N900 Connectivity Status (ALL)
  • Check status of WiFi related control panel applets and UIs
  • Open connection dialog (Janne)
  • Check status of conman
• Other activities
  • Fix bugs
  • Verify reopened bugs
  • Help Fennec releasing and testing

Other ideas

• package the flash plugin
• package a media player plugin (e.g. totem-browser-plugin)
• webm support

Packages

Packages should be in Meego:1.1:Core and MeeGo:1.1:Handset repositories.

• connman
• fennec
• wifi control panel

WLAN (Wifi) Settings

• In build.meego.com/Trunk:Testing (http://download.meego.com/testing-daily/builds/trunk/) build meego-handset-armv7l-n900-1.1.99.0.20110325.85 (and earlier) the Wifi Settings applet was incorrectly in Applications category. This was caused by incorrect category setting in Wifi Settings applet. "Connectivity" category does not exists, thus it fell to default "Applications" category. Now (starting from meego-handset-armv7l-n900-1.1.99.0.20110329.84) changed to "Connnections" category.
• There seems to be bug with style settings (https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14950). With default theme WLAN names cannot be seen. With "Development Theme" WLAN names can be seen.