Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2010-09-07

John J. Barton, Jan 'Honza' Odvarko, Hans Hillen, Darin Wright, Pat Mueller, Mike Collins.

Issues for 1.6

• b1
  • Blocks 1.6
  • DONE panel tab button ui style problem on FF 4.0
  • Script / HTML panel breadcrumb
• Accessibility Review (Hans out this week)
  • new key shortcut mechanism proposed by Hillen,
  • will create prototype on 1.7 branch for now
  • Enter closes CSS editor WHY?
• Need feedback on Swarm
  • New Prototype: Swarms
  • collect test list from extensions and run all
  • contact extension authors,
• The Firebug Swarm
  • First run page
  • one per alpha and beta
  • donation page
  • New support for testing extensions (Honza, kpdecker); need doc
  • New tests for completion needed (Honza)
• Change to ant for builds

1.6 on FF 4.0

• known issues
• Looks like FF 4.0b4 might work for Firebug, in code freeze now, out next week
• FF4.0 labeled issues

Testing

• New FBTest registration for extensions
• Daily testing for Firebug + Firefox
  • Test Bot Page
    • Only one occasional failure on 3.6
    • One 4.0 failure caused by Firebug: lib absolute URI

• • 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
  • Add support for reporting that FF crashed (Honza)

Firebug 1.7

• Branch and attack debugger.js/fbs to get a plan for refactoring work.
  • 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
  • Middle ? BrowserToolInterface ? BTI. DebuggerProxy
    • Sub objects.
  • Event patterns.
    • Request scripts, callback handler
    • Register Handler, callback on event
  • Call styles discussed in newsgroup
• Firefox proposal window.console
• Standards may based on Web IDL or [JSON Schema http://json-schema.org/]
• First new feature: JS ReRun
  • enabled on breakpoint
  • Button left of Continue
  • re-runs current stack from its first function.
  • tested on click event handler
  • needs key binding, FBTest, trial on a lot more cases....
• Selectbug extension added to fbug SVN (jjb)
  • Adds side panel to CSS panel, selectors
• Mutation Recognizer needs to support removal of UI features
  • eg remove breakpoint (HONZA)

JaegerMonkey (FF 4.1?)

• uses jsd, adapted
• some tests failed, under investigation (HONZA)
• current: single step fails, crashes; break on next fails
• maybe 4.0?

Fund Raising

• California non-profit.
  • Eric Jung, maintainable.
  • jjb to ask IBM
• Delegating can go ahead
• Zazzle problem on black tee-shirt
  • look into other sites (jjb)
  • try white tee (jjb)
• Firebug trademark vs Firebug non-profit name?
  • Check with Mozilla (jjb()

-- Not discussed this week ---

Crossfire

• Crossfire labeled issues
• Webkit Inspector Protocol?
• 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)
• Standards may based on Web IDL or [JSON Schema http://json-schema.org/]

Bugs

updated March of the Firebugs