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Episode 437: Apr 15th, 2026

Links

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• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• Work on downloads sidebar
• We’ll create a simple version of Downloads in Firefox View, with a shared base component
• Then the FxView and Sidebar variants inherit from that shared base component
• Don’t actually worry about FxView, but have the base component none-the-less.
• We’d have a version of the list that lists the items
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• See if we can factor out the existing download panel item UI into a domain-specific reusable component that can be used in different contexts (primarily, I’m aiming for this to be storybook-able)
• window
• DownloadsPanel
• DownloadsView (added as a listener to DownloadsCommon)
• DownloadsViewItem represents a download, and hears about updates
• How do we make Downloads View UI storybook compatible?
• Doesn’t necessarily mean the first step is converting to Lit! The first step is perhaps to not use XUL.
• Convert richlistitem to moz-richlistitem HTML element
• Do this next week (I should clear this with the ReComp team) <– don’t need to do this first
• Convert richlistbox to moz-richlistbox HTML element
• Probably slightly easier than moz-richlistitem (clear this with ReComp team) <– don’t need to do this second
• Convert DownloadsViewItem to use HTML elements <– let’s do this!
• The ReComp team suggested a different approach, which is to make the DownloadsViewItem to use HTML elements AND to make sure it’s agnostic / not bound to richlistitem / richlistbox. The upshot meaning we can continue using it, but don’t need to do the richlistitem/richlistbox conversion.

• We’ll use moz-box-group instead, and see what gaps we find. The multi-select gap is an obvious one, but that might be acceptable to start.

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