Karl Dubost: [worklog] Python code review, silence for some bugs.

Пятница, 18 Марта 2016 г. 12:20 + в цитатник

Seen a lot of discussions about Ads blockers. It seems it's like pollen fever, these discussions are seasonal and recurrent. I have a proposal for the Web and its publishing industry. Each time, you are using the term in an article Ad Blocker, replace it by Performance Enhancer or Privacy Safeguard and see if your article still makes sense. Tune of the week: Feeling Good — Nina Simone.

Webcompat Life

Progress this week:

Today: 2016-03-18T18:14:59.820644
450 open issues
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needsinfo       9
needsdiagnosis  130
needscontact    95
contactready    84
sitewait        104
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You are welcome to participate

Some thoughts about Mozilla Outreachy program.
HTTP HEAD and its support

Webcompat issues

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

Sometimes trying to get Apple attention is hard. If you know someone working there on the front-end of iTunes, you might be able to help us.
document.write() + user agent sniffing + bad css selectors = image too big. Another one difficult to contact
Google Calendar old bug is… old. or Search Log-in for different locales or sometimes not even there at all. Like not receiving the tier1 version.
We are very close to get a fix for Gmail on Firefox.

Gecko Bugs

Debugger and User-Agent switcher interactions.

Webcompat.com development

Explaining how to work with pull requests and branches
Helping contributors on the project. 741 on form.py, 865 on database, 969
We need a migration script for the DB.
We need to tight up our management scripts.

Reading List

Instagram-style filters in HTML5 Canvas. Clever technique for applying filters to photo when browsers are lacking support for CSS filters. Two thoughts: 1. What is the performance analysis? 2. This should be tied to a class name with a proper fallback for seeing the image when JS is not here.
6 reasons to start using flexbox. "But in actual fact, flexbox is very well supported, at 95.89% global support. (…) The solution to this I have settled on is to just use autoprefixer. Keeping track of which vendor prefixes we need to use for what isn’t necessarily the best use of our time and effort, so we can and should automate it."
Seen that introductory blog post about CSS. I liked it very much, because it's very basic. It's written for beginners but with a nice turn into it. It also reminds me that writing about the simplest thing can be very helpful to others.
Selenium and JavaScript events. In that case, used with python for functional testing.