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 [...]
The first iteration of the Inspector’s style panel has landed! It’s pretty basic right now and we’re going to be beefing it up and adding to it in the hopefully very near future. What it shows right now is a list of all CSS properties for the selected (highlighted) element in a web-page. It will [...]
This week I put some more finishing touches on the Style Panel patch and the DOM Panel, which should be ready for landing this week to squeak into the first Beta of Firefox 4. While doing that, I rebased my patches for the new tree panel and fired off a try build for you to [...]
Last week I managed to get the Inspector’s new tree panel working locally. It was a good chunk of work, incorporating about 2000 lines of DOMPlate, converted to a new JavaScript Code Module and another 1000 or so lines of JavaScript and CSS from Firebug. This morning I finished up the styling fixes for Windows [...]
Last week I promised to write a blog post to talk about why Mozilla’s building an inspector into Firefox. This is that blog post, and I also hope to explain a bit about the direction we’re taking with it and to ask all of you for feedback on what you’d like to see it do. [...]
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