DevTools/2012-09-06

Meeting Details

• Thursday Sep 6, 2012 - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99459
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99459 (US)
• Vidyo room link: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=kJp7HpENLMjj
• #devtools on irc.mozilla.org for backchannel

Standups

• Tanvi
  • CSP Warn -> CSP Error
    • https://twitter.com/RSnake/status/243031087633293314
    • https://twitter.com/RSnake/status/243032661784932352
    • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607067
  • Error console

• Rob
  • Off for a week

• Mihai
  • web console remoting patch part 2 (window.console API and JS evaluation) updates based on reviews from Panos. also completed part 3 (network logging). started work on part 4 (some cleanups - remove HUDService-content.js and any message manager-related code).
  • will also do part 5 which will add new tests for the new web console actors, in toolkit.
  • will start an etherpad to document what i did for the web console remoting - the actors, the new protocol changes, the rationale for the decisions taken, etc.
    • will also propose some changes/improvements to make the new actors more reusable for other components in firefox and extensions.
    • will want feedback as much as possible and as soon as possible!

• Optimizer
  • Completed a leftover patch for reverting to last saved state in Scratchpad. r+ and ready to land.
  • Patches that are incoming in couple of days:
    • Copying screenshot to clipboard command (bug 788890)
    • Request and response bodies menu item more discoverable (bug 704983).
  • Timeline RDP implementation complete in a separate branch "RDP". Will merge with master as soon as Panos's patch lands for bug 753401.

• Nick
  • Updated sources-over-protocol as per Panos' review comments
  • Still working on fixing mochitests that have broken in the process

• Paul
  • bug 768442 landed (placehoder for sidebar inside a tab)
  • inspector killswitch now only hide the context menu item
  • fixed a couple of highlighter regressions

• Honza
  • Firebug 1.10.3 reviewed, available on AMO
    • https://blog.getfirebug.com/2012/09/03/firebug-1-10-3/
  • JSD2 in progress, first working scenario
    • First working scenario: http://www.janodvarko.cz/firebug/jsd2/tests/stepping.html
    • Still a lot of open questions
    • Current focus: geting objects from the server, use JS proxy on the client?
    • Important thing for Firebug will be ability to extend existing (debugger) actors

• Panos
  • extension API patch is ready, just waiting on feedback from Jim. Doing some b2g-related followup work for the profiler
  • patch to display statically-inferred names for anonymous functions
  • reviews for Mihai's web console remoting and Nick's sources over protocol patches (debugging a B2G device works!)

• Espadrine:
  • crash fix for CSS parsing
  • unicode in the style editor yet again! (landed)
  • autocompletion in the scratchpad: using the WebConsole's popup

• Kevin
  • Two new posts on Hacks
    • Aurora 17 developer tools: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/09/html-editing-and-other-improvements-in-firefox-17-developer-tools/
    • Firefox command line: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/08/new-firefox-command-line-helps-you-develop-faster/
      • 60 comments on the blog post
      • 40,000+ views on YouTube (245 likes vs. 7 dislikes)
      • front page of Hacker News as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4456420
  • Paul spotted a JSTerm article on Webmonkey: http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/09/supercharge-your-javascript-development-with-jsterm-for-firefox/
  • We're working on competitive positioning and helping with requirements for the DevHub http://marketplace.mozilla.org/developers/
  • initial app template plan is to include Bootstrap (customized), but we will likely also offer a web components-based template on an experimental basis

• Brian
  • UI Framework in progress: http://www.briandils.com/mozilla/FFxDevTools-Wireframes-v1.2.pdf
  • Page 4 is a little confusing...it's an example of a floating panel. Next iteration I'll add more notes to the mockups

• Joe
  • We have the basics of an API through which the developer tools window will work
    • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/devtools-framework-jsm
    • Also: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/devtools-glossary
  • NEW fuzzy matcher in GCLI
  • NEW testing framework landed. Will auto-create test cases for you

• Heather
  • about to put light theme up for review \o/

Roundtable

• Joe:
  • Promise is being weird. Why.

• Paul:
  • Did you know about `make chrome`?
    • On Mac:
      • time (make -C browser chrome && make -C browser/app)
      • is twice faster than
      • time (make -C browser);

• CSP Warn vs Error

• Plans for the Meetup. Fill in the blanks:
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/devtools-septmeetup
  • https://intranet.mozilla.org/DevTools/London/Sept2012