Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2013-11-12

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Florent Fayolle, Simon Lindholm, Jakob Kaltenbrunner, Belakhdar Abdeldjalil

Releases

• Firebug 1.13 alpha 5 is out
• Release Firebug 1.12.5 (with fix for Issue 6942)

Platform

• Bug 815603: JSD.pause and unPause is slow
  • All implemented, we are ready to go.

• Bug 931752: Webfonts are still cached when the browser cache is disabled
  • Honza: Ask again in the bug.

Issues

• Issue 6957: Inspector shortcut (Accel+Shift+C) conflicts with the built-in DevTools shortcut
  • Needs to be in 1.12.5
  • Honza: fix

• Issue 6923: Reimplement PixelPerfect in Firebug
  • Built-in pixel-perfect features gives us the opportunity to be different.
  • We should also integrated NetExport
  • We should make sure these little features are not annoying
  • We basically agree that pixel-perfect should be integrated (just )
  • Related issue: Issue 4547
  • We can also introduce restartless extension and make them more discoverable. but still the code maintenance is harder.
  • Thread

• Issue 6898: Ask for an API to extend the hooked console Object
  • Sebastian: will provide a feedback

• Issue 6913: FBTest - Remote Command Execution
  • Honza: take a look at it

• Issue 55: Auto-completion for Command Editor
  • Sebastian: we should improve UI (more like cmd line)
  • Sebastian: will open a new issue + reuse Command Line Popup UI (font size should be bigger).
  • Simon: we need to change firebugui/codemirror-showhint.css
  • We need to test tab key
  • showCompletionPopup could be reused, but we probably want to have two different options.
  • Let's test if first and see how it works
  • It's on JSD2 branch

• Issue 6740: Display registered MutationObservers for an element
  • Simon: Will try to fix, it's just a wrapper problem

• Issue 6855: Display the returned value or the exception thrown
  • Honza: do some docs related to providers
  • Review the changes

• Issue 6857: Give the ability to modify the returned value
  • Sebastian: defer this feature

• Issue 6851: Show the index in the output of console.table() Localize "(index)" column?
  • Do we need the "(index)" label at all?
  • Chrome: displays the column all the time
  • We should discuss again
  • Florent: sum the options in the bug report

Code Styling

• Coding Style: variable name for "number of contexts"
  • nbContexts is not enough
  • contextCount sounds better

JSD2

• We still need more testing
• Honza: refactoring the DOM panel

Reviews

Simon: could anyone review my HTML auto-completion patches?

• Issue 6814: Auto-complete CSS styles within the HTML "style" attribute
• Issue 3700: Add auto-completion for HTML attributes
  • Honza: should take a look