DevTools/2011-07/28

Meeting Details

• Thursday July 28, 2011 - 8:00am Pacific, 11:00am Eastern, 15:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99459
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99459 (US)
• #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Notices

• Tilt
  • Added UI widgets for implementing the visualization interface.
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1QCBH5lhGs
  • getComputedStyle() to show the style.
  • Image to tilt, based on brightness: screenshot

• Firebug update
  • John left the Firebug team
  • Firebug 1.8 released tomorrow
  • Working on blog posts about 1.8
  • Create branch for Firebug 1.9
  • Next: put together a solid plan about Firebug future and approaching e10s

• Style Editor
  • UI refresh for fitting in a side panel.
  • HTML UI
  • Keynav and a11y questions.

• Script Debugger
  • Protocol addition to list sources
  • UI fixes and additions, also has a11y questions.
  • Large text area for script viewer.
  • Coming to a remote-debug branch near you soon.

• Web Console update
  • bug 673148
  • Opens and close with e10s
  • JSTerm work that crosses process boundary
  • Object inspection
  • Working on object marshaling and lifetime.
  • Still need to deal with nsIScriptErrors
  • Networking code will need attention.
  • Got some code cleanup as a result.
  • console.group and console.time patches are rebased
  • Hunting down a leak in console.dir
  • Console access to the current highlighter widget underway.
• Command Line update
  • Leak in the prerequisite seems to be figured out.
• Highlighter update
  • Layout view bug 663778
  • Popup with the size of element and dimensions.
  • Currently in a doorhanger, obscuring the page too much.
• Style Inspector
  • Removed the category views, displaying all properties
  • Delay showing property views.
  • UI refreshed based on mockups from limi
• Code Editor
  • Some problems with how orion is currently implemented wrt events.
  • Plan to land orion behind a pref
  • bidi support needs work too.
• HTML Tree Editing
  • Patch for individual attribute editing, waiting on tests.
• SourceMap
  • JS code often goes through a translation step - minification, coffeescript, etc.
  • Allow script to provide a map between generated source and original source.
  • Patch in review parses and generates source maps
  • Patch in review to store sourcemap pointers during scanning/tokenization of script parsing.
  • XPCOM service that will map filenames to sourcemaps
  • Finally, web console will be able to show original source for exceptions/etc.

Roundtable

• a11y plan
• l10n
• QA: Will be very helpful if we can have all features wiki pages updated, especially those targeted to land in Firefox 8