The weekly report for week 31.

Monday 2006-07-31

• Tried to advocate for the font zoom patch to be accepted.

• Fixed a couple of problems with the content sink patch that bz pointed out.

• Tried to stop scripts yet again.

• Studied Cocoa stuff.

Tuesday 2006-08-01

• Discussed the content sink patch with peterv.

• Studied Mozilla strings. There are so many flavors.

• Learned about strings on IRC from timeless and bsmedberg.

• Started an implementation for an NSString category for converting to and from XPCOM strings. Used the Camino utilities as a starting point, though it seems that Gecko’s strings have evolved so that the existing utility methods should be rewritten to avoid unnecessary copying steps.

Wednesday 2006-08-02

• Learned more about XPCOM strings.

• Wrote code for converting between Cocoa and XPCOM strings.

• Tried to figure out where on the wiki to contribute the content sink diagram.

Thursday 2006-08-03

• More string conversion code.

• Subscribed to cocoa-dev.

• Got copying text from Gecko working.

• Found out that image clipboard flavors in Gecko don’t work the way they seemed from looking at the API.

• Established that Windows and Carbon don’t support pasting images, so I guess Cocoa doesn’t need to, either.

• Figured out, in theory, how to convert Thebes images into TIFFs.

Friday 2006-08-04

• The context menu is broken, which makes it hard to test image copying.

• Pulled a fresh tree and found out that context menu worked in that tree.

• Testing without text paste is hard, too.

• Figured out how to put a PICT on the clipboard from Cocoa with the old Mac gfx.

• Verified that copying from Cocoa Firefox and pasting into Mac OS 9 SimpleText works.