Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2014-06-17

Jan Odvarko, Florent Fayolle, Christoph Dorn, Steven Roussey, Belakhdar Abdeldjalil

Vacations

• Florent: 23 June => 05 July

Firebug 2 Release

• Firebug 2.1
  • Honza do the release on Friday

• Issue 7524: 2 displays, fullscreen flash window goes behind the browser window
  • Florent: working on this
• Issue 7528: Work around incorrect behavior of eval with Script panel enabled
  • Patch from Simon available
  • Positive feedback on the patch
  • Honza: ping @syg
• Issue 7530: Toolbars are huge in combination with "Theme Font & Size Changer"
  • Simon, patch available
• Issue 7535: Properly implement custom shortcuts for Command Editor
  • Simon will take a look

• Everyone: let Honza know if there is yet another issue that should be fixed in 2.1

Firebug.next

• Honza: create a new tips & tricks for debugging Firebug.next
• Honza: kick off a thread, how to transform our wiki for Firebug.next?
• Honza: filing new issues
  • Use labels intuitively according to our experience from Firebug 2 and google.com (we can always adapt to different scheme)

• First tasks + labels in the issue list: https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next/issues

Demo for London work week, steps towards:

1. Firebug theme for native developer tools (design + layout)
2. Implementation of basic concepts (side panels, option menus, context menus, search, navigation, panel toolbar, etc.)
3. Additional features?

• Jakob: Support for 3rd party JS libs (customize the Console panel, customize the HTML panel or Events side panel), jQuery, Backbone
• Simon: Dynamic analyses of JS comments
  The debugger would parse JSDoc comments and insert the equivalent of if (typeof x !== "number") debugger; at the beginning of functions.

If the x parameter is documented as being a number

• Florent + others: Command Editor (we could use Scratchpad)
• "Use in Command Line"
• Events panel customization: show wrapped event listeners (formerly derived)

• More planning: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firebug-next

Some platform analyses & links:

• Customizing Console Output
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Web_Console/Custom_output
• Customizing Variables View Output
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console/Custom_output#Customize_previews_for_objects
  • Christoph: I think I can feed this format from my PHP introspection lib: https://github.com/firephp/firephp/tree/master/lib/Insight. It is much lighter on the wire and can capture large object graphs. This would allow for introspection of snapshotted objects while PHP executed on the server.
  • JetPack Object inspector
  • https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/pull/1502/files
• Customizing HTML Inspector?
  • (needs analyses)