This morning (or afternoon, for many participants in the call), we had our weekly developer tools update meeting. As usual, the notes are on the wiki and anyone is invited to call in.
Highlights from this week’s call:
- The Scratchpad has landed, and we’re already getting some good feedback from nightly users. Scratchpad provides a simple way to work with and prototype JavaScript in your browser.
- Expect Firebug 1.7.1 this week. Firebug 1.8 will enter beta soon, to match Firefox 5.
- Three short demos of in-progress work for your viewing pleasure:
- The Firefox 6 Web Console links console log messages to the line that created the log message.
- Progress is being made on the Highlighter
- The Style Inspector is currently going through review
- The Debugger feature is a large one, and Dave Camp just put a lot of attention into the feature page with a plan forward.
- We discussed overall UI a bit (freely dockable panels, Firebug and Web Inspector-style “all-in-one” views, some in-between options). What kinds of views will help your workflow the most?
We have a lot of work in motion right now, and I welcome any questions or feedback about our work!
– Kevin Dangoor on behalf of the devtools team