Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2009-02-10

Attendees

curtisb, honza, steves, johnb, robc, ?

Upcoming/Recent events

• Steve Souders mentioned the Velocity Conference in San Jose for June, calls for topics in the air.
  • attending so far, honza, robc
    • Honza to present 10 minute feature on Firebug
    • may have 30-45 minute workshop on website performance testing, robc and/or honza volunteered
  • tentative attendees, jresig, johnjbarton
• honza attended FOSDEM last week

Firebug 1.3

• 1.3.3b1 on getfirebug.com release on AMO in a week or two
• 2 problems, first with encodings other than UTF8, other with (net) spy
  • both fixed, issues on file
• wait 2 days and release

Firebug 1.4

• beta soon
• few changes to port forward from 1.3 to 1.4
• a13 finish prototype for new activation system. When complete, strip old activation code. Getting confusing - jjb
• Hans Hillen to start implementing keybinding mechanism, to follow up on discussion group

Firebug 1.5

• an old copy of 1.4, needs to be updated before work
• UI changes, tab-strip location todo curtisb
• export data from net panel, honza working with steves, and httpwatch for format
  • options include xml, html, json
  • html may be a strong contender since it's displayable easily

Fireunit

• honza has solved the loading files from chrome problem
• jjb came up with a mechanism to run a set of sequential steps to put the debugger into a testable state
• currently has clipboard export support, need to work on console output - todo robc
• sendKey method. Can it send, modifier keys? (doesn't look like)
• multiple versions, multiple browsers, need to keep coverage minimized
  • stick with 1.3 on 3.0 for now
  • 1.4 on 3.1, possible 3.0
• honza to investigate prototype of FireUnit in chromespace todo
  • packaged xpi?

Firebug lite

• FireUnit for Firebug lite?
  • rewrite required
• code guidelines
  • work on trunk according to azer
  • mike r to forward email to group / pedro
• azer to release final versions on getfirebug
• honza suggests fbug lite could use DOMPlate if wanted to re-use code
  • probably some significant effort to do, but likely possible

Extensions

• jjb adding to docs
• honza: new api for l10n. extensions can register string bundles. todo
• 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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