Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2009-01-27

Attendees

robc, johnb, curtis, honza, mike ratcliffe, steves

Upcoming events

• Steve Souders mentioned the Velocity Conference in San Jose for June, calls for topics in the air.
  • attending so far, honza, robc
  • tentative attendees, jresig, johnjbarton

getfirebug.com

• firebug lite?

Firebug 1.3.1

• 1.3.1 beta on getfirebug.com release on AMO in a week or two
  • hold for cache limit fix
  • issue 1357 fixed
  • issue 1347 fixed
  • issue 1339 fixed
  • any others?

Firebug 1.4

• move to beta when 1.3 released todo
• move to beta in early january, currently works in 3.1 in its alpha state
• Hans Hillen ready to commit code for a11y
• keep current implementation of simple activation
  • clean up current implementation with steve's suggestions
• current search UI needs work
  • wire it up to current simple UI

Firebug 1.5

• open for reviews and commits

Fireunit

• sendKey method. Can it send, modifier keys?
• need a UI to locate list of tests
  • startNet.html?
  • http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/tests/unit/testRunner.html
  • http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/tests/unit/testList.js
  • http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/tests/unit/start.html
  • see also, http://getfirebug.com/tests/unit/
• need to be able to run a single test
  • startNet.html has single links, probably a decent model
• lists in chrome: ?
• UniversalXPConnect?
• JJB- division between fbug project test cases and fireunit makes them harder to use in automation, need to bridge this gap
• need to consider mechanism for tracking unittests across different versions of firebug
  • packaged xpi?

Extensions

• keybindings API + l10n support
• honza started http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/firebug-extension-points
• wishlist - http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/web/firebug-1-3-extensions
• identify and prioritize features todo
• lots of existing extension points - need better documentation
• christoph to rewrite firePHP and document the process on his blog, wants to keep track of extension points and changes to them, create test-cases that exercise these extension points should be a priority. todo
• simplify process of creating tools or extensions using DOMplate. There should be a way to prototype an extension using a wizard-like interface or walkthrough.

Activation UI

• changes in new 1.4 alpha - try 'em out!
• simple activation in 1.4 or 1.5?

Firefox

• jsd2 work can begin - jjb
• bugzilla cleanup for 2.0-only problems.
• chromebug in firefox 3.1 is opening 0-size windows
• bug 465993 Blocks chromebug on FF3.1
  • todo need someone to install the test case and verify - robcee
• new jsd tests: /fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com
• need someone to install this extension in an clean Firefox profile (no Firebug) and try it.
• bug 379410 (jsdICompilationUnit) First work in progress patch. reworked the test case: fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com/content/jsd/jsdIDebuggerService2/bugzilla-379410.js
• bug 449454 Work abandoned, Lower priority now since 379410 will do the work.
• Bugs against jsd:
  • Top priority, causes erroneous application behavior: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463239
  • Causes un-debuggable code: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462704
  • Both of these have test cases in fbug/chromebug/tests/jsdTests@johnjbarton.com/content/jsd/jsdIScript

March of the Firebugs

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