Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-31

John J. Barton, Jan 'Honza' Odvarko, Darin Wright

Issues for 1.6

b1
- Blocks 1.6
- commandLineShowCompleterPopup problem
- panel tab button ui style problem on FF 4.0
Accessibility Review (Hans out this week)
- new key shortcut mechanism proposed by Hillen,
- will create prototype on 1.7 branch for now
Need feedback on Swarm (jjb on another project this week)
- New Prototype: Swarms
- collect test list from extensions and run all
- contact extension authors,
The Firebug Swarm
- First run page
- one per alpha and beta
- donation page
- New support for testing extensions (Honza, kpdecker); need doc
- New tests for completion needed (Honza)
Change to ant for builds

Test Bot Page
- Only one occasional failure on 3.6
- One 4.0 failure caused by Firebug: lib absolute URI

Branch and attack debugger.js/fbs to get a plan for refactoring work.
- New API between debugger.js and fbs to match CrossFire protocol
  - pmueller suggested looking at json schema
  - darin suggests looking at java remote debug for extensibility issues
- add support for JS debug to Firebug for Google Chrome
- prepares for jsdv2
- prepares for mobile web debug at least for JS
Refactor to support Firebug Embedded:
- Firebug in Firefox as jetpack
- Firebug in Google Chrome more complete, more common code
Darin making progress on Firebug.Middle
- Middle ? BrowserToolInterface ? BTI. DebuggerProxy
  - Sub objects.
- Event patterns.
  - Request scripts, callback handler
  - Register Handler, callback on event
- Call styles discussed in newsgroup
Firefox proposal window.console
Standards may based on Web IDL or [JSON Schema http://json-schema.org/]
First new feature: JS ReRun
- enabled on breakpoint
- Button left of Continue
- re-runs current stack from its first function.
- tested on click event handler
- needs key binding, FBTest, trial on a lot more cases....
Selectbug extension added to fbug SVN (jjb)
- Adds side panel to CSS panel, selectors
Mutation Recognizer needs to support removal of UI features
- eg remove breakpoint (HONZA)

Crossfire labeled issues
Webkit Inspector Protocol?
Testing of backend: FBTest?
- Darin
Listener client/server
- Browser Tools Interface
Socket startup and shutdown issues.
Avoiding context transfer?
- Leave all model info on server side
- Client side has "presentation model" (cache of info needed for panels)
Standards may based on Web IDL or [JSON Schema http://json-schema.org/]