I went looking through my library for the classic Smalltalk-80 books to lookup the definition for the original consoleworkspace. When I realized I didn’t have the “orange book” on my shelf, I searched for it and found all of the original Smalltalk-80 books in PDF: http://www.world.st/books. From Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment (p. 106, How [...]
One feature I wanted in Firefox 4 was a JavaScript Workspace. I know I’ve talked about it to a bunch of people. Most of the time, people looked at me like I had a chicken on my head. The concept is so simple yet hard to really convey how useful it is. Conversations inevitably go [...]
Every year we bring in Mozillians from around the globe to have a focused get-together. It’s a time when we can do some heavy planning, and brainstorm in one place. Often, some of the hallway conversations and parties generate good ideas. One conversation I had last night with Dietrich, Dolske and Mak was, how do [...]
For years, the world has been able to rely on Firebug and its console for debugging web sites. It has been a convenient and productive tool and we’d probably still be languishing in the window.dump() mines without it. A side-effect of this availability has made some patterns appear that don’t play nicely with consoles that [...]
It’s Black Friday! For some of you, that means lots of shopping, post-turkey discomfort and watching football. Maybe all at once. For me, it meant checking out the latest development trunk of the Add-ons SDK (née Jetpack) and bundling up an add-on. There were a couple of fun things about doing this. One, all of [...]
A few years ago, back in the heady days of 2006, dria and I were sitting around discussing alternative browser designs. One of them was dislodged from my memory a few days ago when Labs announced the Chromeless project. How could we make use of all the vertical real-estate on a widescreen monitor? One idea [...]
We’ve been recently discussing some of the future directions for our Devtools group within Firefox world. One of the proposals is to do some development on Github using Jetpacks for feature work. The idea being, we can work rapidly on these features in a collaborative, social space, and then fold them back in as a [...]
Last night I checked in two patches to disable the Inspector and the Error Console in Firefox 4. If you’d like to turn them back on, the code is still there. In about:config, change devtools.inspector.enabled or devtools.errorconsole.enabled to true. (note: you will need to restart your browser for these changes to take effect. It checks [...]
update: I had to back the tree panel out due to leaks on the debug boxes. Need to spend some time analyzing the patch to see where it’s coming from. It’s been a bit of a crazy week. A crazy couple of weeks if the truth be told. The pace of checkins and change on [...]
There has been no blogging recently. There hasn’t been time. We have a browser to ship. There are features to build. There is code to write. The Inspector still has a bunch of pieces to land and we’re hoping to get the major ones into Beta 5 this week. We’ve got some neat stuff coming [...]
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