Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2012-04-03

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Joe Walker, Christoph Dorn

Meeting Room

Firebug 1.10

• 1.10.0a7 next week?
• 1.9.2?
• List of 1.10 blockers
• Firefox Nightly breaks XHR
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/firebug, remove all SVN repos?

Backport to 1.9

• http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/list?can=1&q=port%3D1.9
• Honza: go over the list and decide what to port
• Sebastian: go over commits marked as [1.9]

New Blockers

• Issue 5299: HTML panel doesn't get updated, if nodes are changed at another panel

New Features

• Sebastian: Issue 2916: Trace Styles Feature
  • Built in Style Inspector code here and here

AMD Loader

• RequireJS loader is replaced by a simple one
  • https://github.com/firebug/firebug/blob/master/extension/modules/mini-require.js
• The loader is using for both: development and production
• Building production XPI should be done through Dryice
  • All modules in one file
• The loader is synchronous based on mozIJSSubScriptLoader.loadSubScript
• Small ~16o lines

Extensions

• API for Jetpack based extensions
  • http://groups.google.com/group/firebug-working-group/browse_thread/thread/7a287a5aa53601d1
• Jetpack-firebug
• Try to run a simple JetPack Firebug Extension and test with Firebug

HTTP Monitor

• Some more progress
• repo

Automated Tests

• Sebastian implemented several new tests
• STILL NOT DONE: The test-bot needs files from from GIT (bug 734368)
  • Clint Talbert pinged