DevTools/2010-10-06

Meeting Details

• Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010 - 9:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Eastern, 16:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 275
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 275 (US)
• #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Notices

• Web Console in Firefox 4 spec
  • this document focuses on how the final Web Console should behave
• Web Console backend work and security review
  • security review went well and only identified a couple of things (reducing privileges of network panel, private browsing switch when data is cached)
• Web Console polish work
  • see bug 599498 for the top-level changes under way
  • Alex Faaborg has been providing guidance and mockups
• JSConf.eu and Skywriter
  • Cool new editors like ACE
  • Bespin 0.9a2 release
  • GitHub repository is still broken, but it's coming along. will be the first version of the project that can stand up with just a static file server (or, depending on browser, possibly just opening the file)
• Ongoing Inspector work (highlighter, style panel specificity)
  • robcee: new highlighter is iframe-based and it's at the prototype stage. makes no modifications to the underlying page at all
  • he wants to be able to show relations to other nodes or highlight collections of nodes
  • jwalker: we should remove the specificity information from the new Style panel and provide a new view that gives you a textual summary of why a rule is not in use and how to make it be used.
• Firebug update
  • Firebug 1.7 alpha stream is starting
  • Honza has been working on improving the build scripts
  • Honza has been spending time fixing Firebug in Firefox 4. There are still a couple of critical bugs.
  • JM introduced a debug mode which needs to be turned on for any debugging. Honza has a C++ patch to set the mode to true by default, but clearly that doesn't scale.
  • Single stepping isn't working in JM
  • Want to be able to share modules between Firebug, Firebug Lite and things like the Web Console

Roundtable

• ddahl: Firebug can probably use the lazy console once that lands. (Honza says this may be possible for 1.7)
• robcee is going to pick off the net panel privilege reduction bug