Re: Robohornet browser benchmark

2012-10-16 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Daniel Buchner wrote: > I will talk with Alex about all of the concerns you've raised (hopefully > this week) > > Hopefully we can get everything straightened out and produce another great > benchmark option that we can all consume/contribute to! https://github.co

Re: Freetype autohinter (was Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Fonts Working Group)

2012-10-16 Thread Karl Tomlinson
On 2012-10-16 9:42 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > (Aside: In a way, it's rather sad how much engineering effort is put > into compressing TrueType hints, when the reason for sending TrueType > hints over the wire is that Microsoft's font rasterizer's are so > backwards that they still need hints even t

Re: Planning to turn off Talos tdhtml

2012-10-16 Thread jmaher
> > Are you able to expand on the reasons why these don't provide any > > value, please? We have been trying to find developers who would be a contact/owner for the content/usefulness of the all talos tests. This effort was started back in July and we are still trying to get confirmation on s

Re: Planning to turn off Talos tdhtml

2012-10-16 Thread Karl Tomlinson
jmaher writes: > In our continuing effort on the Auotmation and Tools team to make Talos tests > useful and make sure we know and care about what we are measuring, we have > realized that the tdhtml tests are not providing us any value. Are you able to expand on the reasons why these don't provid

Re: Off main thread file I/O

2012-10-16 Thread Gavin Sharp
This is excellent - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript_OS.File/OS.File_for_the_main_thread is exactly the kind of API I've been wanting for a long time. I know it took a lot of work to get there - thank you for your efforts. A couple of questions: - some examples use file names wi

Off main thread file I/O

2012-10-16 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Hi everybody, I am happy to announce that we now have a JavaScript module for Off Main Thread File I/O (OMTF). This module is called OS.File and, if you need to access files from your code, you really should use it. If you own code that does main thread file I/O, you should really migrate

Freetype autohinter (was Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Fonts Working Group)

2012-10-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
On 2012-10-16 9:42 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: (Aside: In a way, it's rather sad how much engineering effort is put into compressing TrueType hints, when the reason for sending TrueType hints over the wire is that Microsoft's font rasterizer's are so backwards that they still need hints even though

Fwd: Re: Planning to turn off Talos tdhtml

2012-10-16 Thread Scott Johnson
Meant to send this to the list also. Original Message Subject:Re: Planning to turn off Talos tdhtml Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:35:40 -0500 From: Scott Johnson Organization: Mozilla Corporation To: jmaher Joel: I recall getting value from these tests when b

Planning to turn off Talos tdhtml

2012-10-16 Thread jmaher
In our continuing effort on the Auotmation and Tools team to make Talos tests useful and make sure we know and care about what we are measuring, we have realized that the tdhtml tests are not providing us any value. We run these as chrome/nochrome. Here are the tests: http://hg.mozilla.org/bui

MemShrink meeting today 10/16/2012 @ 4:00pm PDT

2012-10-16 Thread Jet Villegas
Today's MemShrink meeting will be brought to you by a gigantic data URI: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786108 The wiki page for this meeting is at: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink Agenda: * Prioritize unprioritized MemShrink bugs. * Discuss how we measure progre

Snappy Meeting, Thurs. Oct 18, 11am PT

2012-10-16 Thread Lawrence Mandel
This week is a Snappy meeting ON week. Please add your items and status to the agenda before the call. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/snappy Dial-in: conference# 95346 US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95346 US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95346 Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 C

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Fonts Working Group

2012-10-16 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > I don't think you need to be concerned that the Web Fonts WG is likely to > define a new, incompatible "WOFF 2.0" format without addressing this aspect. OK great. (No need for a charter comment based on my previous email then.) -- Henri Siv

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Fonts Working Group

2012-10-16 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 16/10/12 14:42, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:54 PM, L. David Baron wrote: W3C is proposing a revised charter for the Web Fonts Working Group. For more details, see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2012Sep/0016.html http://www.w3.org/2012/06/WebFonts/draf

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Web Fonts Working Group

2012-10-16 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:54 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > W3C is proposing a revised charter for the Web Fonts Working Group. > For more details, see: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2012Sep/0016.html > http://www.w3.org/2012/06/WebFonts/draft-charter-ac.html > > Mozilla has t