DevTools/2011-06/09

Meeting Details

• Thursday Jun 9, 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

• Tilt
  • Code is here: https://github.com/victorporof/Tilt
  • A preview can be viewed at http://youtu.be/NYfkUgH-dmE?hd=1
  • Weekly updates are also on the project blog: http://blog.mozilla.com/tilt/
  • Will add some test units, also starting to add depth to the visualization based on the DOM
• Firebug update
  • 1.8b1 feedback has been pretty good
  • Just fixing bugs, planning 1.8b2 tomorrow
• Style Editor
  • putting up a simple, parser-less implementation for now
  • Code for the current implementation is here: https://github.com/neonux/StyleEditor
  • download an XPI to try it here: http://neonux.com/StyleEditor-builds
• Script Debugger
  • some trouble with JSD2 last week which held up the stack frame UI a bit
  • stack frame work pushed yesterday (get a stack when you stop at a debugger statement)
  • Panos is getting up to speed on the debugger work
  • variable inspection is up next
• Web Console update
  • Fix for Scratchpad links that appear in the Web Console
  • console.clear was shelved for now
  • console.dir is almost ready. There's a styling issue that Panos could use help with
    • try build is available
• Highlighter update
  • msucan is working on iframes and keyboard/mouse interaction when Highlighter is active. Fixing up these bugs to get initial patch landed
  • New HTML-based highlighting concept from Paul: http://pmo.paulrouget.com/~prouget/tmp/h2.webm
  • Paul is also working on the panel that appears when you're highlighting a node
  • Paul also has a video of that panel in context with the highlighter
• Command Line update
  • a10y work and reviews to get the various parts landed
  • toggle switch so you have access to both JS and the new Command Line (test fixes needed)
  • relicensing of GCLI/Pilot underway
• Style Inspector
  • r+ from msucan
  • there are some rtl problems still
  • working on Highlighter integration
  • domtemplate lives in both the command line and the style inspector. something should be done about that.
• Code Editor
  • progress on the API, still some bits that need to be done
  • work is on hold a bit because the Highlighter is higher priority
  • IBM team has integrated patches and has been very open to collaboration
  • They also have plans to reduce the Dojo dependencies
  • a10y is likely fine for fx7
  • textarea fallback will likely be too much work
• HTML Tree Editing
  • prototype is now doing the DOM manipulation
  • moving prototype code in central
• Scratchpad
  • Rob has created a new demo. See Scratchpad in action!

Roundtable

• QA
  • Took ownership of devtools for Firefox 7
  • Testday starts tomorrow at 2am PDT
  • join #testday to help answer questions
• dcamp is going to make Friday try builds of the debugger
• dcamp and ddahl will cover for robcee in merging devtools fixes to central
• dcamp started discussion about discussion forums
  • our daily "scrum" email is not broadly useful and we don't want to force that on people
  • we should make sure that we talk about ideas and ask questions on a more public and useful forum (dev-apps-firefox is the current default)