Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2014-07-08

Jan Odvarko, Joe Walker, Florent Fayolle, Sebastian Zartner, Farshid Beheshti, Steven Roussey, Simon Lindholm

Firebug 2

• Issue 7560 (Improve performance of switching between JavaScript sources)
  • Probably related to syntax highlighting; many complaints => high priority
  • Introduce a new option in the Firebug menu "Turn off Color Highlighting"
  • Switch off syntax color everywhere (Script panel, Edit Mode of CSS and HTML panel, Command Editor)
  • Create a test case with a huge JS file to see the performance problem
  • But first: we should try appending the stylesheet asynchronously
  • Farshid: take a look at that
  • Farshid: ask :bgrins in #devtools IRC (Brian Grinstead, CM guru)
  • (Honza can introduce you if you want :)

• Issue 7301 (Debugger breaks on no more existing breakpoint)
  • Honza: take a look
  • There is no test case

• Issue 7512 (Hitting a breakpoint causes minimized Firefox browser windows to maximize)
• Needs more investigation of Windows devs

• Issue 7515 (Breakpoint doesn't get hit on frames)
• Issue 7586 (Breakpoint doesn't get hit reloading
  • Sebastian: provide a test case
  • Honza: provide a patch

Firebug 3

• Theming
  • Let focus on one "Firebug" theme and do it right
  • We can safe a reasonable amount of time by not maintaining three different themes.
  • But, it may be a competitive advantage for Firebug to have different themes.

• Use chrome.manifest file
  • For skin dirs
  • For locale dirs
  • Honza: take a look

• Default arg values
  • Yes, please!

• Localization API (Farshid)
  • No blocker apart from accessing the locale dir

• Let's use a "theme" label for all new issues related to theming stuff

• Issue 17: Simplify error tracing API
  • Options for short API:
  • TraceError.sysout()
  • TraceError.syserr()
  • TraceError.log()
  • Florent: make a decision

• Issue 5: Github Issues need discussion because of some difference with one used for Firebug 2
  • All: everyone should read and comment

Demo for London work week (milestone "london" - we want this milestone in the github.com issue list), focus on (can we have meta bugs?):

1. Firebug theme
2. Support for jQuery
3. Server side logging