Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2011-07-19

Grant Gayed, Mike Collins, Steven Roussey, Honza

News

• John J. Barton left FWG
• Mozilla developer-tools team is going to support Firebug team.

Firebug 1.8

• 1.8 is in pretty good shape.
• All blockers fixed.
• The last thing that should be in 1.8 is exposing module loader API to extensions
• Honza: release Firebug next week

Remote Debugging & Crossfire

• Honza: mainly focusing on the Net panel
• Mike: mainly focusing on the Script panel
• Tab Watcher: central place that will be affected by remote-debugging refactoring. Every panel depends on that.
• Create a wiki page collecting requirements for new Tab Watcher architecture (Mike, Honza)
• Crossfire: Waiting for module loader support API in Firebug

Firebug & Lite

• Pedro is making great progress with Lite.
• Lack of resources to move to the pure Firebug HTML UI
• What about do remoting first and then connect Lite to the existing backend?
• Waiting for Pedro's opinion.

From last week:

• Flexbox UI work is progressing.
• Looking for feedback on bottom toolbar. See newsgroup thread.
• chrome.js / FirebugChrome API differs in Lite vs. Firebug 1.8, still need to implement flexBox chrome module.
• Large console panel and bottom console have to be kept in sync, need to implement console panel to be maximized view of bottom console.