Firebug/WeeklyUpdates/2014-09-23

Jan Odvarko, Sebastian Zartner, Simon Lindholm, Florent Fayolle, Joe Walker

No meeting next week. Summary of the work week will follow the week after - at the next meeting: 7th of October.

Firebug 2

• Firebug 2.0.4 release

• The home page doesn't display the last blog post
  • Honza: FIXED
  • The page doesn't have the correct fav icon
  • Honza: take a look

• Issue 7654: Don't use LoadContextInfo.default for opening HTTP cache entries
  • Honza: still waiting for response from Jan Bambas

• Issue 6557: font previews don't work
  • Let's show a hint within the Style side panel in a tooltip for web fonts that they are not supported.
  • The same for the font preview in the Net panel (Issue 6568: Font viewer is broken) - remove the extra tab.

• Issue 7655: Script panel causes 'Unresponsive script' dialog for sourceTool.js
  • Florent: will merged it into the master

• Issue 7201: (Re-)implement //# sourceURL
  • Could cause performance issues, we need to test
  • There is also a related Bugzilla bug

Firebug 3

Goals:

1. Firebug theme (top priority now)
2. Server side logging
3. Support for client side library

Round table discussion:

• Farshid: Prettifying stack frame URLs #2 (tracing-console)
  • Honza or Simon will take a look and help Farshid
• Florent: Server side logging #23
  • Honza: help start implementing the actor

London Meeting Agenda:

• Feature areas dedicated to developer tools extensions (like e.g. 3rd party
  • https://getfirebug.com/wiki/index.php/Firebug_Feature_Wish_List
• How Firebug.next can contribute to (be part of) the Developer Browser edition.
• Communication strategy. The entire Firebug community should
• API for dynamic actors installation (the Jetpack team) and other platform blockers.
• Firebug.next planning/milestones/road map (when Firebug 3 alpha 1 is ready etc.).

• Put more ideas into the Etherpad!

• Platform bugs
  • Bug 1065259: ////# sourceURL is not recognized as source URL
  • Bug 981987: [jsdbg2] |Debugger.Source.prototype.displayURL| is not available within the |Debugger.onNewScript| hook for |new Function| scripts
  • Directory structure (skinning and localization)
  • Bug 859058: Implement "Copy as HAR" and "Save all as HAR"

London planning:

• Monday: Travel day
• Tuesday: official start, bunch of meetings/demos
• Wednesday: ?
• Thursday: ?
• Friday: end of the work week!
• Saturday: Travel day