Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2013-05-14

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Simon Lindholm, Florent Fayolle

Releases

• Firebug 1.11.3 released this week
• Firebug 1.12 alpha 6 release on Friday

1.11 Blockers

• We need a new issue for the broken context menu
  • Sebastian: create new issue
  • Honza: fix it
  • If Firebug is just enabled/disabled it works

• CSS panel issue
  • discussion group thread
  • Sebastian: we need a new issue for this

• Issue 6436: XMLHttpRequests not displayed in Console tab with FF 17, FB 1.11.3
  • Honza: fix it

TestBot

• Issue 4979: Group console messages
  • Honza: Implement a driver for this test
  • Try to implement it as one test
  • The order of logs doesn't have to be tested by this test

• Issue 6435: Create FBTest that covers DOM panel search
  • Honza: TODO

• Issue 6428: FBTest failures: dom/5247 and dom/6283
  • Sebastian: TODO

• Issue 6422: Add a right click option for accessing objects in the Command Line
  • Simon: TODO

• At some point we could consider support SeaMonkey again
  • What about RDP and JSD2, is it available in SeaMonkey?

• Issue 6442: Test more things in cross-origin iframes
  • describe how it could improve our FBTest
  • We should discuss at some point

Issues

• Issue 6430: Use in command line support for the Net and Cookies panel
  • Honza: use nsICookie2 for the Cookies panel
  • Honza: do a blog post asking for feedback.

• Issue 6422: Add a right click option for accessing objects in the Command Line
  • Simon DONE

• Issue 4979: Group console messages
  • Honza: test the patch from Sebastian

• Issue 6402: Don't abuse the debugger service for injecting "console"
  • Florent working on this
  • https://github.com/fflorent/firebug/compare/issue6402#L2R219
  • Honza: do review
  • branch
  • We should discuss again the next time

Code Mirror

• Great progress
• We should check licenses
  • We should ask Gerv
• Merged with jsd2 branch

Console API spec

• Console APIs are quite different across dev tools
  • Spreadsheet showing differences
• We should find the existing W3C group and who is leading it.

JSD2 Adoption

• Adopting FBTest API
  • Honza: working on it

• SVG problem with the breakpoint condition editor
  • Sebastian: try to do a workaround
  • We can always go back and use PNG again