DevTools/2011-10-06

Meeting Details

• Thursday Oct 10, 2011 - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 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

• Firebug
  • Firebug 1.9a4? (waiting for fbug SVN -> getfirebug.com syncing)
  • Meeting notes from this week
  • RequireJS updated (0.27.0). Using new feature 'resourcesReady' - Firebug initialization sequence waits till extension's modules are loaded.
  • Firebug still broken on Nightly and Aurora, bug 689101.
  • Updated Firebug Roadmap with proposal for a TabWatcher (central Firebug driver component).

• Tilt
• Command Line
• Highlighter
• Style Inspector
  • Leaks fixed, ready to enable on m-c
  • Rob working on moving to a sidebar
  • Mihai and Mike working on performance improvements.
• Style Editor
  • Very close to landing, waiting on nits to be addressed.
• Script debugger
  • Attaching across navigations is close to ready to land.
  • UI doesn't use iQ anymore.
  • Debugger UI remembers its height across sessions.
  • Property viewer underway.
• Orion
  • Talked with orion developers
  • Discussed accessibility, performance
  • Discussed API improvements that mozilla could provide to make things easier.
  • Copy/paste bugfixes, etc.
  • Four months between releases
  • Six week hardening cycles

Roundtable

• User studies are underway.
  • Interesting and informative, presentations coming soon.
  • Firebug test pilot study/survey.
  • Global Developer Survey data coming soon.