Karl Dubost: [worklog] funny bugs are not always funny

Суббота, 12 Марта 2016 г. 17:04 + в цитатник

Starting the week with rainy days and a very active and busy week-ends. Tune of the week: "Singin' in the Rain" 1952 ~ Gene Kelly.

Webcompat Life

Progress this week:

Today: 2016-03-12T23:05:20.602961
451 open issues
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needsinfo       11
needsdiagnosis  122
needscontact    93
contactready    83
sitewait        104
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There is a new Custom User Agent field on the responsive layout mode.
There is discussion on dropping the Developer Toolbar.

Webcompat issues

(a selection of some of the bugs worked on this week).

Insanity prize of the week, though not really a Web Compat issue because it is happening in all mobile browsers with small screens: Basically infinite loop if your screen size is less than 480 pixels by a script placed before the
We knew it would happen. One of the pitfalls of fixing Web Compatibility issues is that we enter in territories which are designed specifically to address WebKit quirks. In this case, a weird technique for line clamping on WebKit gets into the way.
Yahoo Japan! sends something which relies probably on the way Blink/WebKit interprets the style.
NipponColors, another broken site from Japan, specifically designed to break in Firefox.
Funky layout issue on AirBnB.

Gecko Bugs

Webcompat.com development

Helping volunteers
on adding tablet to labels
Create installation script for labels in a test repo
Generic error handler based on status code for status 40…
Make error handler code in views.py more DRY and the PR
Discussions on improving the webcompat form bug reporting. Share your ideas there. We can do so much but we need your inputs too.
Opened [feature] Display the screen size of the bug reporter
Worked on Optimizing images when uploading to the server
~~We broke CSS Fixme. The submit button is not working anymore.~~ Hmm. It works
it's usually good to document issues before we forgot what it was about.
On patching every HTTP responses for CSP.

Reading List

Mozilla Community Design issues list is an interesting project where designers can help the Mozilla community. That's quite cool.
EnhanceConf - Stefan Tilkov - How to embrace the browser 20 minutes talk about using the Web browserfor what it has been made.
Embracing simplicity

Which is exactly what’s happening in our industry. We’re so hypnotised by complexity, we forget the basics. […] We must stop fearing the page refresh and stop fearing white space.
The Gecko Monoculture.

Finally, we need a technological brick to get applications other than Firefox to run Gecko.
Styling Broken Images