Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2010-08-03

John J. Barton, Mike Collins, Darin Wright, Hans Hillen, Patrick Mueller

Issues for 1.6

• Time for b1
  • Blocks 1.6
  • b1 next week (delayed)
• Completion
  • TAB ? , (Seems ok) avoid flashing
  • CSS3 background text? maybe placeholder text? FF4 only?
  • TAB TAB to change focus
• Accessibility Review
  • DONE TAB key to move to next field
  • new key shortcut mechanism proposed by Hillen, will create prototype
• Concentrate on swarm
  • New Prototype: Swarms
  • DONE store test results to CouchDB (honza)
  • collect test list from extensions and run all
  • contact extension authors,

The Firebug Swarm

• First run page
  • one per alpha and beta
• donation page

Firebug 1.7

• Branch and attack debugger.js/fbs to get a plan for refactoring work.
  • DONE branched
  • New API between debugger.js and fbs to match CrossFire protocol
    • pmueller suggested looking at json schema
    • darin suggests looking at java remote debug for extensibility issues
  • add support for JS debug to Firebug for Google Chrome
  • prepares for jsdv2
  • prepares for mobile web debug at least for JS
• Refactor to support Firebug Embedded:
  • Firebug in Firefox as jetpack
  • Firebug in Google Chrome more complete, more common code
• Darin making progress on Firebug.Middle
• Firefox proposal window.console
• Standards may based on Web IDL or [JSON Schema http://json-schema.org/]

1.6 on FF 4.0

• known issues

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Not discussed but saved for next week

Daily testing for Firebug + Firefox

• Test Bot Page is UP!
• Bug 559466 Integrate firebug test suite with automated tests
• Triage Process
  • Contact page, platform triage person?
• Bug 532445 run unit tests (daily?) with Firebug installed in testing profiles

Crossfire

• Testing of backend: FBTest?
  • Darin
• Listener client/server
  • Browser Tools Interface
• Socket startup and shutdown issues.
• Avoiding context transfer?
  • Leave all model info on server side
  • Client side has "presentation model" (cache of info needed for panels)
• Accelerated 1.7 work to get Firebug for Fennec
  • Honza and Mike: Firebug to Firebug via CrossFire
  • TODO: Reverse relationship between TabWatcher and Firebug
  • TODO: Command line flags to init firebug from crossfile (module vs panels)
  • Test case for re-attach

Bugs

updated March of the Firebugs