DevTools/Features/AutocompletionPopup
Status
| Autocompletion Popup for Web Console | |
| Stage | Complete |
| Status | ` |
| Release target | Firefox 6 |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | ` |
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Team
| Product manager | Kevin Dangoor |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Kevin Dangoor |
| Lead engineer | Mihai Sucan (msucan) |
| Security lead | Curtis Koenig |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Vlad Maniac (vladmaniac) |
| UX lead | ` |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | ` |
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Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
The current JavaScript autocompletion in the web console suffers from some usability issues (difficulty in discovering other names that are available, inconvenient keyboard shortcuts for choosing a name).
2. Users & use cases
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3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
The new autocomplete popup lists the possible completions such that the user can either click them or scroll through them using the up/down arrow keys. Tab and Enter allow the user to accept the selected completion. Escape closes the popup and deletes the proposed completion.
If the feature is not ready during the Aurora phase, msucan will back it out.
Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
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Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
- bug 585991 is the bug that contains the feature.
Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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The new autocomplete popup lists the possible completions such that the user can either click them or scroll through them using the up/down arrow keys. Tab and Enter allow the user to accept the selected completion. Escape closes the popup and deletes the proposed completion.
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Feature details
| Priority | P1 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | ` |
| Roadmap | Developer Tools |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | DevTools |
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Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | sec-review-complete | Notes |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | Ready to land in Firefox 6 | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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Other Documentation
Autocompletion is implemented in many contexts. Prior to this feature, our completion is similar to that of the WebKit Inspector, but Firebug's current completion UI (which uses a popup as proposed here) seems more usable.