DevTools/2011-05/12
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Meeting Details
- Thursday May 12, 2010 - 8:00am Pacific, 11:00am Eastern, 15:00 UTC
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 9364
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 9364 (US)
- #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel
Notices
- Firebug update
- Lots of progress on the conversion of the code to modules (AMD-style)
- the giant libjs file has been split into several separate modules now
- working on making chrome.js dynamic so that Firebug Lite can have a replaced version of that file
- Firebug 1.7.1 is coming out this week
- Firebug 1.8 heading to beta soon
- Firebug 1.9 branch will start then
- One of the trickiest parts of sharing code between Firebug Lite and Firebug is keeping the 50+ extensions running
- Debugger
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Features/Debugger
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Features/Debugger/Notes (further implementation notes, very sketchy).
- Web Console update
- Console log output with file/line notices: http://vimeo.com/23578513 bug 646025
- Storage service reviews are moving forward
- autocompletion bugs being worked on
- Scratchpad update
- Scratchpad has landed for Firefox 6!
- http://antennasoft.net/robcee/2011/05/10/scratchpad-nee-workspace-web-developer-menu-landed/
- Feedback is coming back. Response in fx-team yesterday was fairly positive
- some complaints about keyboard controls
- requests for a toolbar
- Highlighter update
- http://people.mozilla.org/~rcampbell/highlighter.ogg
- down to just a couple of test failures
- there's a problem that comes up in first run
- working on annotations and close controls in the coming week
- Command Line update
- patches are up to get the first bits in
- interesting challenges around l10n
- one approach is to land it without any strings
- Style Doctor
- At the point where we can write rules for it now
- First 4 rules written
- Style Inspector
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rttP-HB9j74
- msucan has done a review of the patch and mratcliffe is working on that feedback
- very small patch to integrate with highlighter
- peer review is next
- Style Editing
- demo not quite ready yet
- worked on some issues with the incremental parser and editing comments
- kdangoor to upload hand-drawn mockup
- View source
- Next step is evaluating relative costs of the choices
Roundtable
- dockable panels
- enn has prototype
- ux is not sure about the complexity
- console has a single panel sort of solution
- there's a halfway point of a preprogrammed docked place and the ability to just undock
- there's also the Web Inspector/Firebug all-in-one window model
- Modules used in Firebug (RequireJS)
- Require's failure mode (when you can't get your dependencies) is very unhelpful
- jjb has made some changes to require that helps debug problem
- Alex asked about use cases for the scratchpad
- Rob will make a screencast for Scratchpad
- QA will extract use cases from that