Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2008-12-09

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Attendees

curtisb, janodvarko, johnresig, steves, robc

Upcoming events

  • Steve Souders mentioned the Velocity Conference in San Jose for June, calls for topics in the air. Steve to send Jresig an email.

getfirebug.com

  • DONE - add blog link to planet
  • todo - Kohei to translate Japanese getfirebug.com pages. In progress.

Localization

  • Couple of new translators and many updates + New Locale ro-RO (Romanian).
  • Italian and German locales in progress.

Net Panel

  • honza working on gathering comprehensive list of MIME types for dealing with binary files. Needs to prevent them from being cached.
    • todo find canonical list in firefox codebase - robcee
  • cache fix in firebug 1.4. needs testing.

Fireunit

  • DONE - push new API changes (jresig)
    • should be ready to go, just waiting on some security review, but otherwise useable.
  • net tests and fixes (honza)
  • jresig still has some security concerns re: activation of webserver
    • OK if called from chrome or file, not so if remote
  • need a UI to locate list of tests

Extensions

  • steve reminded us about Christoph Dorn, and will invite him to next week's meeting. He's interested on documenting Firebug extension development and possibly creating / hosting example code on github.

Activation UI

  • robc attempted to recap emails, recommends simplifying rather than adding new UI.
  • curtis raised the comment about using different (ffx) profiles for testing/debugging. robc suggests that's probably a small number of users.
  • steves asked some local devs a few questions about what sites were enabled in their browsers with firebug. Those who did know that firebug was enabled, couldn't tell for which sites it was turned on.
  • honza suggests we're working on opposing goals. People want a Big Button.
  • robc mentioned that even if we go to a big button, we'll still have the mini drop-down menus for turning features on or off. steves suggests that the minimenus are not visible enough. should be tweaked to be more visible/obvious.
  • curtis suggests asking users up front about what type of user they are (designer vs coder) to setup firebug on first use. Hiding script, console and net if a user doesn't want them.
  • robc has also suggested something similar for the tabstrip, with a button to turn on code panels, leaving them off most of the time.
  • steves asked about issue 1176, suspend/resume state on session restart
  • jresig thinks we should try to simplify. Promote using a separate profile and further explain and document the activation process and why it exists.
  • to follow up in an email thread, hopefully with mockups.

email notes from JohnJB

1.4 news

  • a8 out
  • group eval/event file names with parent file name in filelists on Script panel
  • initial implementation decompileEvals option on Script panel (ok for sanity check, curiousity, not for development)
  • initial implementation of traceCalls(fn) (works, output broken)
  • initial implementation of traceAll() (crashes FF)
  • I can be done with 1.4 anytime, these three initial implementations could be moved to 1.5.

FF3.1

  • still stuck on FF3.1 bugs

jsd2

  • no progress, except to switch dev to FF3.1 tree (off new FF3.2 branch).

Firebug 1.3

  • one more beta! release next week?

Firebug 1.4

  • move to beta when 1.3 released

Chromebug 0.4a2

  • possibly broken focus on Mac, jjb to investigate, robcee to try to verify.
    • seems wonky, but I think it's expected (robc)
  • based on firebug 1.4 now

Firefox

  • jsd2 work can begin - jjb
  • bugzilla cleanup for 2.0-only problems.
  • chromebug in firefox 3.1 is opening 0-size windows
  • bug 465993 Blocks chromebug on FF3.1
    • todo need someone to install the test case and verify - robcee
  • new jsd tests: /fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com
  • need someone to install this extension in an clean Firefox profile (no Firebug) and try it.
  • bug 379410 (jsdICompilationUnit) First work in progress patch. reworked the test case: fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com/content/jsd/jsdIDebuggerService2/bugzilla-379410.js
  • bug 449454 Work abandoned, Lower priority now since 379410 will do the work.
  • Bugs against jsd:

March of the Firebugs

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