Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2013-10-08

Jan Odvarko, Belakhdar Abdeldjalil, Sebastian Zartner, Florent Fayolle, Simon Lindholm, Jakob Kaltenbrunner

Releases

• Firebug 1.12.3

Mozilla Summit 2013

• CSS autocompletion API
  • Issue 6841: Use platform API for CSS autocompletion

• Integrated help for HTML/JS
  • Do we have the right web services?
  • Some platform APIs are planned, but there no estimate.
  • Bug 768456 - API call for getting the first n docs to appear for a search term

• Info tips
  • less transparent, more interactive
  • display CSS transformations
  • Visual Studio has good example
  • Issues needed

• Pixel Perfect
  • We can't take over, but we can ask to change the description and point to a new version.
  • Chrome has similar extension

• Introduce Florent & Mihai
  • Hook the built-in console object
  • Florent: there is a related bug number
  • CC: Simon, Honza, Florent, Sebastian
  • Florent: Make sure we have a Firebug issue

• Firebug & Open Badges
  • http://openbadges.org
  • Laura Hilliger
  • Emily Goligoski

• Expose objects to content
  • Avoid __exposedProps__ in the future.
  • Honza: Create test case for grizsanits@mozilla.com
  • Florent: report a new issue and discuss an alternative (yet before the test case)

• Firebug Startup Time
  • Test using Gecko profiler
  • Try to join files (probably won't help)
  • Perhaps removing comments?

• Join sf-monument group on mozillians.org

• Use Telemetry
  • and get more user stats info
  • get exceptions
  • Performance data (startup time)

FBTest

• Simon: console/completion/959
• Simon: console/completion/4233

JSD2

• Test the jsd2 branch
• Submit bug reports