DevTools/2013-04-11

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Round Table

   Browser devtools UX plans?
   Webapps devtool
   hosted in the toolbox? some controversy 
   EventEmitter async emit()?

Calls to Action Who's running this week's meeting? dcamp Who's running next week's meeting? jeff the keener Who will transcribe this week's meeting on the wiki? robcee

30 Second Updates

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Benvie

• async scratchpad landed this week
• proof of concept scratchpad working over debugger protocol (bug 825039)
• working on using VariablesView in Scratchpad (bug 808369) [1]

Honza, Firebug:

• fix for page context menu, backporting
• Firebug 1.11.3 beta 1 tomorrow
• Test fixes (test bot is green again)
• Breakpoint architecture clean up

Panos

• landed the font fix for the remote connection page in both beta and aurora
• landed the navigation fix when switching between remote and non-remote tools in aurora
• landed multiple sumiltaneous debugger support
• landed a target API change that removes the need from tools to deal with tab actors
• landed a fix that will make xpcshell tests that time out to report useful logs
• fix for a bug in data URL navigation in review

Jim

• unsafeDereference landed!
• B2G root server (!!)

dcamp

• Loader patch - bug 855914
• Talked about debugger server loaderation

mgoodwin

• innerHTML - https://github.com/freddyb/html2dom
• We have that for free: HTMLParser(aHTMLString)

Jeff

• hacks post went up last night and got posted to HN
• hacks
  • thanks to Mike & Mihai for responding while I slept! will provide more warning to the team next time.
• collating responses this morning, nothing particularly surprising, generally positive feedback
• random kitten picture:

fitzgen

• landed bug 850738 - craploads of telemetry probes for the RDP
• source map stuff (bugs 772119, 849069) bounced again due to memory leaks :(
  • Was doing opt builds and try pushes and didn't realize they wouldn't show up unless you do debug builds
  • Last time I ever try to be nice and conserve try resources
  • Can only reproduce if I run the whole devtools mochitests, not running just the debugger tests :-/

Victor

• landed the Network Monitor on Monday
• 40 followups
• already fixed 5!
• also made some UI improvements to webconsole

Mihai

• landed bugs 783499, 808370 and 587757 - the web console's switch to the debugger api (eval-in-stackframe), switch to variables view and the new browser console. these patches fix several longstanding issues with the web console.
• thanks to jim for unsafeDereference.
• intermittent orange fixes, fix for bug 859170 (a browser hang with the web console).
• working on submitting a close-to-final patch for bug 851231 - Console.jsm output to the browser console

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