Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2010-09-07
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John J. Barton, Jan 'Honza' Odvarko, Hans Hillen, Darin Wright, Pat Mueller, Mike Collins.
Contents
Issues for 1.6
- b1
- Blocks 1.6
- DONE panel tab button ui style problem on FF 4.0
- Script / HTML panel breadcrumb
- Accessibility Review (Hans out this week)
- new key shortcut mechanism proposed by Hillen,
- will create prototype on 1.7 branch for now
- Enter closes CSS editor WHY?
- Need feedback on Swarm
- 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
1.6 on FF 4.0
- known issues
- Looks like FF 4.0b4 might work for Firebug, in code freeze now, out next week
- FF4.0 labeled issues
Testing
- New FBTest registration for extensions
- Daily testing for Firebug + Firefox
- Test Bot Page
- Only one occasional failure on 3.6
- One 4.0 failure caused by Firebug: lib absolute URI
- Test Bot Page
- Triage Process
- Contact page, platform triage person?
- Bug 532445 run unit tests (daily?) with Firebug installed in testing profiles
- Add support for reporting that FF crashed (Honza)
- Triage Process
Firebug 1.7
- 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
- New API between debugger.js and fbs to match CrossFire protocol
- 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
- Middle ? BrowserToolInterface ? BTI. DebuggerProxy
- 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)
JaegerMonkey (FF 4.1?)
- uses jsd, adapted
- some tests failed, under investigation (HONZA)
- current: single step fails, crashes; break on next fails
- maybe 4.0?
Fund Raising
- California non-profit.
- Eric Jung, maintainable.
- jjb to ask IBM
- Delegating can go ahead
- Zazzle problem on black tee-shirt
- look into other sites (jjb)
- try white tee (jjb)
- Firebug trademark vs Firebug non-profit name?
- Check with Mozilla (jjb()
-- Not discussed this week ---
Crossfire
- 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/]