DevTools/2011-05/26

Meeting Details

• Thursday May 26, 2010 - 8:00am Pacific, 11:00am Eastern, 15:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 9364
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 9364 (US)
• #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Notices

• Firebug update
  • 1.8a3 just released
    • lots of changes, bug fixes, module loader work
    • compatible with Firefox 5 but not nightlies/aurora yet
    • 1.7.1 is also compatible with Firefox 5 (AMO automatically increased the maxVersion)
    • may be a 1.7.2 with some backported fixes
  • New tests for shortcuts
  • New wiki page that explains 1.8 changes to help extension authors
  • new "Hello World" extension to help Firebug extension authors know how to do extensions with the new module system
  • next up is remoting
• Style Editor
  • quick quick demo
  • Incremental parser is working really well now (passing all tests)
  • The parser makes it very easy to implement all kinds of features, since you know what the user is doing specifically
  • DOM updates are not quite back yet
  • A lot removed from the UI for now to make a minimum feature patch
  • incrementally add the cool features back in once the DOM updates are working
  • There is highlighting of what you're editing in the video demo (perhaps Highlighter integration makes sense?)
• Script Debugger
  • Debugger has a small bit of UI now (close and pause/resume buttons)
  • Stops at Debugger statement (and pause/resume button works)
  • Original plan was stack traces in UI by EOW, but probably not going to have the UI part this week
• Web Console update
  • patches for console.time(), console.timeEnd() and console.clear() under peer review
  • console.clear could just put a separator rather than clearing (which could eliminate concerns of content scripts getting rid of useful data for the user)
  • Basic Storage Service is about ready to land. waiting on last review from Gavin.
  • None of the storage service stuff right now caches network traffic.
• Highlighter update
  • msucan helped with troubleshooting some problems with synthetic mouse events
  • style panel removal patch is nearly ready to land
  • wants to spend some quality time with the debug protocol to see if that can help do what the Highlighter needs when content moves out of process
• Command Line update
  • "this close" (fingers held close together) to being able to control the in-progress debugger using the command line
• Style Doctor
  • no updates this week
• Style Inspector
  • fixing tests this week
  • needed to rebase on top of a couple of other patches
  • will integrate with Highlighter at the same time
• View source
  • dev-apps-firefox discussion
• HTML Tree Editing
  • getify posted a UI prototype to play with the editing behavior

Roundtable

• Alex has added some use cases to the Scratchpad page which we should review
• robcee is working on two Scratchpad "howto" videos.
  • no more than 5 minutes for each
  • one for working with content
  • one for working with chrome