SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage

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This is the development tracking page for the creation of a new memory information page, which is a Google's Summer of Code project.

The idea is to create an interactive a page which will demystify memory statistics for people who are not involved in developing the browser, but are interested users, or independent web developers, who would like to know about the footprint that the browser creates under-the-hood.

The project will be developed as an extension using the Firefox Add-On SDK, and would mainly make use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The visualizations and interactions would be handled by the library D3.js.

Here is the development chronology till date:

✔ Week 1 : Summary (Spoilers: Repository is initialized.)

✔ Week 2 : Summary (Spoilers: Attempts at pulling the data fail miserably, then succeed.)

✔ Week 3 : Summary (Spoilers: A new bug is discovered.)

✔ Week 4 : Summary (Spoilers: First signs of life reported from the target library.)

✔ Week 5 : Summary (Spoilers: Some data went missing, was recovered.)

✔ Week 6 : Summary (Spoilers: It is all coming together.)

✔ Week 7 : Summary (Spoilers: The first build is up at git.io/fx-stats.)

► Week 8 : In progress

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We still hope to implement:

✘ At least two more visualizations

✘ Live updates to the data

✘ Selective tracking of any metric as per user's selection

✘ Read from saved JSON files

✘ Everything else from the original project proposal, and then some