Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2013-05-07

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Florent Fayolle, Gal Steinitz, Simon Lindholm

Releases

• Firebug 1.11.3 still waiting for review
• Firebug 1.12 alpha 6?

Firebug Lite

• New contributor: Gal Steinitz
  • Strong in JavaScript and SQL background
• Steps to be done
  • First step: migrate to GIT (keep history if possible)
  • Honza: Kick off a thread about Firebug Lite structure
  • We should create a new wiki page for Firebug Lite.
  • We should also search for existing wiki pages
  • Bug triage should be done
  • We should move issue list to GitHub.
  • Honza: make sure Gal has privileges to all necessary groups/services
  • Next goal: debugging on mobile (iPhone/iPad, ...)

TestBot

• Honza: Implement a driver for this test
  • Still TODO

Issues

• Issue 6422: Add a right click option for accessing objects in the Command Line
  • Simon is working on it
  • We should try to put it into a6

• Issue 229: Allow event types to be filtered with "Log Events"
  • Feedback says keep it
  • For now we are done

• Issue 6402: Don't abuse the debugger service for injecting "console"
  • Not much progress
  • We should discuss next time again
  • Florent working on this

• issue 6268: Expose a clean "console" object to the Command Line
  • Old proxy works
  • Honza: ask Eddy Bruel about old Proxy stuff (how long it'll be supported); ask also about the silly bug 793210

• Issue 6133: Default include() alias for jQuery
  • Florent: need to fix reset-all-options

• @-rules display inside CSS panel
  • FIXED Issue 1717: CSS Panel does not have @media UI
  • FIXED Issue 5912: Show @supports rules inside CSS panel
  • FIXED Issue 5290: Show @-moz-keyframes rules inside CSS panel
  • FIXED Issue 5429: Show @-moz-document rules inside CSS panel
  • Need hierarchical support
    • FIXED Issue 5913: Allow nesting of CSS rules (this one is committed)
  • Honza: Read through to understand it properly

Code Mirror

• Great progress
• We should check licenses
  • We should ask Gerv
• Merge with jsd2 branch

Console API spec

• Console APIs are quite different across dev tools
  • Spreadsheet showing differences
• We should find the existing W3C group and who is leading it.

JSD2 Adoption

• Debugging dynamically evaluated scripts!
  • Blocked by bug 865313: It is not possible to debug dynamically evaluated scripts