Status 2006-01-6

Platform Team Activity Report, week ending 1-6-2006

Meetings

Late January, 2006: RTE component, MSAA accessibility, inlilne <img>, bugs fixed to that date, plus the compier port if stabilized sufficiently. Off of lps-dev.
April, 2006: Ginger (see JIRA)

Converted VariableAnalyzer and ReferenceCollector to java. (ptw)
Working on converting CodeGenerator to java. This is the big and final piece. Spent most of the week on this, expect another. (ptw)
Removed the last flasm code from the Runtime Library (LPP-350) (jim)
Bug fixes (max)
- LPP-1282: Rendering glitch on roundrects
- LPP-1277: Wrapping Layout uses largest height of previous rows/columns
- LPP 1152: Boolean error in LzDatasetPool.get()
- LPP-1315: Super limited to five arguments
- LPP-1273: tabelement button hover too high
- LPP-1306: Lock layouts until parent view (and its children) are done initing, then unlock. I'm seeing a better than 10x performance boost with /lps-dev/test/layout-perf-tests/perf-nowidth-proto.lzx.
Continued planning, implementation of alternate runtimes. See: http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/Legals_Project. (max)
Runtime tasks completed (max)
- Move mini runtime to lps/includes/lfc
- Add wrapper page for OLR and lzt=js script includes
- Figure out how to emulate classes in Javascript 1.2
- Began to move the OLR to a new inheritance model
implemented lzt=jscript feature for DHTML runtime (hqm)
fix to default Openlaszlo menu (hqm)
started working on LaszloInitiator for DHTML (hqm)
set up OSFlash wiki and project for SWF9 Disassembler http://osflash.org/swf9dis (hqm)

Extensive review & markup of Max & Norman Klein's "[Open]Laszlo in Action".
Discussions with Jim about opening up the documentation process:
- Concerning Sean Wheller's proposal to move to DocBook for Dguide(s).
- How this does or does not affect how we do the Reference Manual
- How best to produce docs for multiple runtime targets
Drafted agenda for Information Architecture pow-wow to be held in San Mateo at the end of January
With Ben, discussed plans for overhauling documentation of text, rich text and fonts.

Helped Ben with ssh tunnels. (ptw)
Helped the doc guy understand view names. (ptw)
add support for 'class' keyword (LPP-930, subtask of LPP-844) (jim)
add "JavaScript" back end to compiler (LPP-931, subtask of LPP-844) (jim)
add source-to-source transform step for Javascript 1.2 class emulation (jim)
Scrubbed Sage bugs and deferred about a third of them to Ginger. All the rest are temporarily P1s, but we'll re-prioritize this week. (jim)
Put Legals tasks into JIRA; getting familiar w/project (amy)
Working process for job requisitions; updated job listings on wiki posting new listing (amy))
Worked with AYM for status of OL website; permission issues (amy)
New contributor agreement; complete (amy)