User:GijsKruitbosch/JS Debugging/Tasks

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Notes

importance != working order, given that some of these items need other items, and that some require back-end changes which will need to happen fast, if at all, on the 1.8.1 branch (which is what I'm trying to cater to).

Front end work is (mostly) being done on: Firebug

Status Summary

Total Fixed Patch done WFM WONTFIX Open Other
23 11 4 1 1 5 1

Task list

N Task Needs backend changes Bug number Result
0 Security Issues Yes - Out of my hands
1 Implement list of Breakpoints No - Patch
2 Implement Watches No - Patch
3 Make the originating document accessible for a JS error in the console No None FIXED
4 Frontend adapted to keep breakpoints and such separate on a per-document basis (for Firebug's console) (see above) No None FIXED
5 Be able to go from a var referencing a DOM element to that DOM element in DOMI No bug 342651 FIXED
6 Be able to debug from the slow script warning dialog. Yes bug 341764 FIXED
7 Newlines are lost in Firebug's watch pane. No - WORKSFORME
8 Venkman is too eager with __toplevel__ script linemaps No bug 341758 FIXED
9 Changing variable values / evaluating js shouldn't require changing tabs away from the debugger (in Firebug) No - Patch
10 Evaluate js in different windows/tabs/iframes No - Patch
11 Provide immediate access to profiling data No bug 341767 FIXED
12 Anonymous functions should not be lumped together in profiling. No bug 347888 FIXED
13 Double-check handling of about:blank and (related) running/stopped state tracking in Firebug. No - FIXED
14 Figure out why I'm crashing on GMail with firebug enabled (hack/sneak/workaround?) and on exit when using two debuggers Hopefully not. bug 342074 FIXED
15 Fix wrapping of variable/value tree No - FIXED
16 JS 1.7 improvements Yes? - None
17 Debug mutation events (watch DOM elements) Yes - None
18 Getters / Setters improvements Yes? - None
19 'real' stack list (not a dropdown) No - WONTFIX
20 Inline editing of functions etc. No, hopefully. - None
21 Pretty print No - None
22 Open Windows view misconstructs base URL No bug 349066 FIXED

Getting to the document that error X originated from

Stuff

Discussion

I would probably order these things higher:

  • immediate profiling
  • newlines in watches view (but there's no watch support yet, so?)
  • eval JS in tab/frame/etc.

And these things lower:

  • JS 1.7
  • inline function editing

But I think you're generally on the right track. I need to write here how we can track what document an error came from without biting off everything that's in the current bug 228205, too. Basically involves finding the current document (via cx->contextPrivate->scriptOwner->frameElement or some such) from the handler called for exceptions and errors, and keeping track of it. We could also "just" have the console error object QI to nsIException, but I bet that would make some people API-sad, so I'm interested in us keeping the hacks to our side of the line if we can.

-- shaver

Done, I think. GijsKruitbosch 07:20, 16 June 2006 (PDT)