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[David Barth <david.barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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HTML5 SDK

* Reviewed the architecture of our HTML5 stack

* Defined integration of the API bindings with the rest of the HTML5 
container, including the Cordova plugins API

* Plan for adjusting package names and dependencies: ie, 
ubuntu-html5-theme to become ubuntu-html5-ui-toolkit for example

* Reviewed and uploaded test packages for the HTML5 stack

* Tested sample HTML5 application with the 3 main features: Ubuntu UI 
layer, native Ubuntu API call (content-hub) and access to the camera via 
Cordova

* Update of the cordova-ubuntu runtime and merge upstream for the 3.4 
release

* Work on getting Cordova-Medic in place for adding test automation for 
the CLI tools and Cordova runtime


Webapps Stack

* Work on the NPAPI switch, ie porting the Chrome extension to the new 
JSON-based API; the old NPAPI interface is planned to become obsolete 
this year, according to the latest upstream plans

* Release of a Gmail update

* Debugging of matching and configuration issues

* Review of Oxide bugs/features necessary for the webapp container


Online Accounts

* Review of the proposal for changing the recommended API for app key 
usage; we will now recommend the use of distinct application API keys, 
rather than relying on our central keys


Click webapps

* Debugging of the AP test suite issues (autopilot patch avaialable now, 
thanks QA team!)

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David Barth
Engineering Manager, Product Strategy