2005 Web Browser Team Meetings Minutes-

• April 25th

• April 4th

• March 28th

• March 7th

• March 3rd

April 25th Minutes:

Attending: Steve Strawser, Barbara McAleese, Steve Minicola, Vern Yoneyama, Mark Sirota, Ryan Butkus, Jon Baron, Elizabeth Scheyder, Jon Lee.

Proceedings:
• Addressed Results Reporting discrepancies.
• Discussed recent release of Opera 8, impending release of Safari 2.0, and affects on results.
• Lively round-table regarding browser features, statistics, LSP concerns, pros, and cons.
• Team provided a basic outline of FINAL recommendations.

April 4th Minutes:

NOTE:
I did not attend this meeting; and, did not receive a list of attendees or minutes.

Proceedings:
• Final Test Script was released, and minor concerns addressed.
• Jim Choate provided feedback from ISC application developers.
• Discussed the co-leads April 11 preliminary presentations to SUG and IT Roundtable.

March 28th Minutes:

Yippee!
After a few minor adjustments, the Test Script will soon be ready for testing.

Attending:
Steve Strawser, Barbara Mc Aleese, Elizabeth Scheyder, Steven Minicola, Jon Lee,
Jim Choate, Ryan Butkus, and Ian Kelley.

Proceedings:

• 2005 Test Script
- - team adjusted the XML, Java, Flash (plug-ins in general), BenApps, and Time to Load questions.
- - tentative release date for the Test Script is tomorrow, March 29; note: March 30 at the latest.
- - encouraged testers to make good use of the "Recommendations and Comments" section of the Test Script.

• Decided to continue testing Mozilla version 1.7.6 ; even though it is the last iteration of the Mozilla Suite.

• Discussed Opera 8.0 beta's voice activation (Windows only) - - some testers offered to give this a spin and report findings if time allows.

• Jim Choate will meet with various application teams and report back on their specific browser needs and concerns.
We agreed the team's April 11 status report and final report should include this information as a "noted" item.

Fourth Meeting:
Date: Monday, April 4
Time: 2PM - 3:30PM
Location:
University Communications Conference Room
Sansom Place East, room 209
3600 Chestnut Street (also labeled "Nichols" building in some places).

March 7th Minutes:

Folks - - apologies from both Steve and I if something is omitted.
As you know, Steve was booking to get a lot done at the meeting, and I was not able to be there.

Attending:
Steve Strawser, Mark Sirota, Vern Yoneyama, Elizabeth Scheyder, Steven Minicola, Jon Lee, Jackie Eschbach,
Jim Choate, Ryan Butkus, Ian Kelley, Karen Leary, and Meisha Thompson.

Proceedings:
• 2005 Test Script Review and Revision
• Decided on the Tester Matrix - - i.e., who volunteered to test what
• Team discussed Jon Baron's suggestions regarding testing math formulas and language support

Ideas, Suggestions, Topics:
• Karen and Elizabeth will provide further Test Script feedback on Blackboard and WIMBA,
makes sense for them to contact Barbara
• Team decided to NOT test Netscape 8 (recently released)
• Math formulas: team feels most web publishing that includes math formulas is now being done using pdf which can be rendered by all browsers.
• Language support: team feels language support issue is more of an OS issue (what languages does the OS support) vs. a browser issue
• Steve will upload Tester Matrix and Browser Downloads
• Barbara will contact both Larry Macy and Ryan Butkus for help in revising the Test Script results reporting files

Third Meeting:
Date: TBD - - if we need to touch base, likely Monday, March 28
Time: 2PM - 3PM
Location:
University Communications Conference Room
Sansom Place East, room 209
3600 Chestnut Street (also labeled "Nichols" in some places).

Next Meeting Agenda:
• TBD

March 3rd Minutes:

Attending:
Steve Strawser, Barbara Mc Aleese, Mark Sirota, Vern Yoneyama, Perry Bloomfield, Elizabeth Scheyder, Steven Minicola, Jon Lee, Jackie Eschbach, Brian Caputo, and Chris Hyzer (for Jim Choate).

Proceedings:
• Introductions
• Reviewed 2005 Web Browser Team "charge"
• Discussed liasioning with the Email Evaluation Team; Mark Sirota serves on that team
• Began revising the Test Script
• Team members will determine which Test Platforms they can handle by the March 7th meeting

Ideas, Suggestions, Topics:
• No browser CD this year; please provide links to browser downloads on the team website
• John Mulhern should delineate testing of Microsoft SP1 vs. SP2…
• 2005 Test Script considerations:
- - - Test for Web Development Tools?
       Example: Firefox provides Web Developer Tools as an add-on extension…
- - - Test for IDN Spoofing? If so, should this fall under "Security/Privacy"?
- - - Test for Validation?
- - - Test how browsers render various Document Type Definitions (DTDs)?
       A good resource for this: http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/res_doctype.htm#a02
- - - Test for Accessibility?

Reminders:
Sansom West is immediately undergoing heavy construction.
The team will not have access to Standards Lab, nor the Bits and Pieces Room.

Next Meeting:
Monday, March 7 from 2PM - 3PM
Our meeting place is to be determined.

Next Meeting Agenda:
• Complete Test Script review/revison - - left off at the "Protocols" section
• Decide when to make the 2005 Test Script available
• Provide FINAL Test Platforms (i.e., are we testing SP1 vs. SP2, or both, or?)
• Assign Test Platforms
• Discuss future meeting room and dates;
  Steve Minicola of University Communications may be able to provide space…