Re: The future of commit access policy for core Firefox

2017-03-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
build time. Now do I have to buy a smartphone only to contribute Mozilla? What's the next? I actually use a Perl script to do HOTP. And there are things like Firekey. No mobile device necessary. Cameron Kaiser tier-3-2-1-contact! ___ dev-pla

Re: Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #9

2017-05-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 5/11/17 11:27 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Jan de Mooij optimized Array.prototype.shit to have O(1) rather than O(n) behavior <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348772>. Wow. That's an appropriately named function. ;) Cameron Kaiser tier-3 port, t

Re: OS/2 still supported ?

2017-07-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
being maintained. Cameron Kaiser tier-3, 2-1-contact ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: I need to give my 2–coins–worth on this topic, please. (Re: Can we make a plan to retire Universal Mac builds?)

2015-08-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser
ins, webapprt), and I don't know how much of a change would invalidate the use of the trademark. Also (likely when Electrolysis becomes mandatory), we'll have to fork one day anyway when certain dependencies mean it becomes no longer buildable, so this way the branding can come

Re: Proposal to a) rewrite Gecko's encoding converters and b) to do it in Rust

2015-12-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
ure Tier-3 platforms and it would definitely bust TenFourFox (we can't even get clang to be happy on 10.4 currently). Not that we haven't been on borrowed time for awhile; I just point it out for the record. Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform maili

Re: FYI: e10s will be enabled in beta 44/45

2015-12-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser
ot of people upset. Not an issue since initial rollout to beta and release will be to users who do not have addons installed. Assuming e10s is not enabled for release 45, will it also remain not enabled on 45ESR? Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform ma

Re: Rust as build requirement was Re: Proposal to a) rewrite Gecko's encoding converters and b) to do it in Rust

2015-12-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 12/13/15 12:50 AM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: This would essentially mandate, then, that Gecko can only be built on platforms with a Rust toolchain. That may be desirable, but it would probably bust some of the obscure Tier-3 platforms

Re: Rust as build requirement was Re: Proposal to a) rewrite Gecko's encoding converters and b) to do it in Rust

2015-12-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
there. On 12/14/15 2:22 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Cameron Kaiser > wrote: > >> This would essentially mandate, then, that Gecko can only be built on >> platforms with a Rust toolchain. That may be desirable, but it would >> probably bust

Re: Rust as build requirement was Re: Proposal to a) rewrite Gecko's encoding converters and b) to do it in Rust

2015-12-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 12/14/15 7:36 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: That said, I kind of object to the fact that no one brought this up until I noticed it in passing, and the work to get Rust up on a tier-3 platform -- a language that currently has no relevance to

Re: Does js-ctypes supports for nsISupports objects.

2015-12-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Ref aIID); Interesting. How does your code work in practice? Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

nsIProtocolHandler in Electrolysis?

2016-01-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
e protocol handler component, or is there some other problem? A cursory search of MDN was no help. Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: nsIProtocolHandler in Electrolysis?

2016-01-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 1/4/16 12:09 PM, Dave Townsend wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: What's different about nsIProtocolHandler in e10s? OverbiteFF works in 45 aurora without e10s on, but fails to recognize the protocol it defines with e10s enabled. There's no explanation

Re: nsIProtocolHandler in Electrolysis?

2016-01-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
d finishes transferring data, does it or the parent have to do anything else special? Hopefully this will get you started, along with this inspirational gopher:// video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSUyYSQie8 :) It's in the hole! Cameron Kaiser

Re: nsIProtocolHandler in Electrolysis?

2016-01-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser
rs and setters for the load group and notification callbacks, and uses the thread manager to get the current thread to use as an event sink for the socket. Would all this work in the child process? Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-p

Re: nsIProtocolHandler in Electrolysis?

2016-01-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 1/5/16 1:31 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: On 04/01/2016 20:03, Cameron Kaiser wrote: What's different about nsIProtocolHandler in e10s? OverbiteFF works in 45 aurora without e10s on, but fails to recognize the protocol it defines with e10s enabled. There's no explanation of this in t

Re: Non-tier 1 builders: NSPR usage?

2016-01-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser
a bit more of a hassle. TenFourFox does not (we use in-tree NSPR, with our patches overlaid). Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Protocol handler flags for custom protocols that use themselves as UI resources

2016-01-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
atter, I can't combine the two. What's the best combination of flags to get this to work as it did in previous versions? It used to work just fine with just ALLOWS_PROXY | ALLOWS_PROXY_HTTP | URL_IS_LOADABLE_BY_ANYONE. Or, can I use resource:

Re: Protocol handler flags for custom protocols that use themselves as UI resources

2016-01-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 1/25/16 9:49 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 1/26/16 12:42 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Currently, it sets ALLOWS_PROXY | ALLOWS_PROXY_HTTP | URI_IS_LOADABLE_BY_ANYONE | URI_IS_UI_RESOURCE. Those last two flags are defined to be mutually exclusive; setting both has undefined behavior in the sense

Re: Protocol handler flags for custom protocols that use themselves as UI resources

2016-01-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 1/25/16 9:49 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 1/26/16 12:42 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Currently, it sets ALLOWS_PROXY | ALLOWS_PROXY_HTTP | URI_IS_LOADABLE_BY_ANYONE | URI_IS_UI_RESOURCE. Those last two flags are defined to be mutually exclusive; setting both has undefined behavior in the sense

Re: Does SSE2 usage still need to be conditional?

2016-01-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser
r. I don't think that's necessarily true since most Steam titles have substantially higher system requirements. Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Linux distro readiness for Rust in Gecko

2016-03-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser
ave to take to bring Rust up from scratch on a new platform? Cameron Kaiser tier-3s in rain dept. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

the looming wasm chasm was Re: Requiring SSE2 on all 32-bit x86 OSs

2016-05-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
comparison for testing, so doing so has benefits beyond just getting Tier-3 or unsupported systems functional. Cameron Kaiser ein guter Tier-3kenner ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Two Factor Authentication and Github

2016-05-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
that handles 2FA HOTP. The algorithm is very easy to implement and there are lots of desktop choices too. Cameron Kaiser tier-3 misery and company dept. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: MXR permanently offline, please transition to DXR

2016-06-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
, especially for searching historical source trees. Cameron Kaiser mxr? I dn't evn knw hr ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Replacing Gecko's URL parser

2013-07-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser
rt. I'll bet some extensions implement custom protocol handlers that do the same thing. (In fact, I'm sure of at least one; OverbiteFF uses null host names to denote pseudo URLs internal to the protocol handler.) This might be considered gauche, but probabl

Re: Removing support for OS/2

2013-08-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser
al, but as I have no relations to the team doing that, I could be wrong. Dave Yeo would be the right person to ask, since his name is over most of m.dev.ports.os2 (dave.r.yeo AT gmail). Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lis

Re: Exact rooting is now enabled on desktop

2014-01-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser
not, but I want to make sure. Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Graceful Platform Degradation

2014-03-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser
at the taste of the user. Maybe suggestions for an automated means would be nice, but a determined user will want to strip things out in just the way they would like, and I think they should have the opportunity to do so. There's nothing that says this has to be one or the oth

Re: Graceful Platform Degradation

2014-04-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 3/28/14 6:12 AM, Neil wrote: Cameron Kaiser wrote: For TenFourFox, I've often toyed with implementing switches for box-shadow, blur, etc., so that people on the very low end of the spec (we still support G3 Macintoshes) can turn these rather expensive features off. I'd rather do

Re: PSA: Network 'jank' - get your blocking IO off of STS thread!

2015-04-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser
ce to open sockets, and I'm sure it's not the only one that does. The implementation is non-blocking, but I want to clarify from the above post that the intention is not to block non-Necko consumers from using it. Is this acceptable usage, or is it deprecat

Re: Is MOZ_SHARK still used?

2015-04-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
, but I mostly use it for profiling entire processes rather than the specific profiling *control* the Shark code facilitates. If it turned out to be a big deal, it could always be added back in our local changesets since there's really not that many sections. Cameron K

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-04-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
, and not because I still run such a site, I've always found Gopher to be a better fit for resource-constrained computing. The Commodore 128 sitting next to me does very well for that because the protocol and menu parsing conventions are incredibly trivial. What is your 10MHz 8-bit system

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-04-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
On 4/14/15 3:47 PM, commodorej...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 2:51:32 PM UTC-7, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Candidly, and not because I still run such a site, I've always found Gopher to be a better fit for resource-constrained computing. The Commodore 128 sitting next to me

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-05-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser
.. So, Gopher then. Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Let's never, ever, shut down NSS -- even in debug builds

2013-01-28 Thread Cameron Kaiser
xits in this fashion, but to get around a linker issue.) Cameron Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: The future of PGO on Windows

2013-01-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser
ite a difference across the spectrum. But even where this feature doesn't exist (post-Netburst x86, most ARM), it is my understanding that it will still cause code generation to "favour" the likely branch such as making it more likely to stay in the I-cache, etc. Cameron Kaise