Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2012-08-14

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Steven Roussey, Simon Lindholm

Firebug Releases

• Firebug 1.11 alpha 1 this/next week
  • blockers
• Firebug 1.10.3 at the end of August (with Firefox 15)

• Faster Release Cycle
  • As soon as we have enough new features (~8-10?) let's do the release
  • There should be Firebug 1.11 till the end of the year

Firebug.next

• Implement JSD2
  • Let's start on it!
  • First step: design remoting architecture in Firebug
  • Second step: reimplement the Script panel
  • Bug 782683 - Image upload broken on Firebug wiki (SSL connection error)
• Doesn't have to be part of 1.11 (depends how far we can get)

Firebug Commands

• Honza: we should not duplicate features, which are already available in built-in command line, let's try to keep Firebug unique and different to make users the reason to install it.

• Simon: Our commands are more about JavaScript and such. I really dislike the scope idea. And discovery. I don't actually think collisions are a big problem. It's hard. Or might be. And note; Firefox's thing is much more meta. We can add a prefix. Like, ":firebug cd something"? Seems ugly.

• Steven: we can introduce a new global 'firebug' available in the command line, which contains all the built in commands. It would make the built-in command better discoverable.
  • firebug = f<tab> (autocompleted)
  • f<tab>.<tab> would give you the list

Things we should focus on:

• Better discoverability of built-in commands (autocompletion)
• Autocompletion for Command Editor
• Perhaps, avoid conflicts between built-in CMD API and page API?