1054360 - Web platform feature console

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

As a developer I'd like to see a list of new web platform features and improvements available for each version of Firefox, including experimental features that may not be preffed on yet.

Comment 1

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

Like Chrome's flags, filtered version of about:config?

How do we select the preferences to expose? Manually? Could we add a 3rd argument to `pref()`? (http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/profile/firefox.js)

Comment 2

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

(In reply to Paul Rouget [:paul] (slow to respond. Ping me on IRC) from comment #1)
> Like Chrome's flags, filtered version of about:config?

Yes, but unlike chrome's flags provide additional value to each item:

* name of feature
* short description
* link to MDN and other web resources about the feature for future learning
* (if the feature is preffed off by default?) a toggle button.

I think this needs to be limited to boolean prefs only as described - I wonder if there are cases where features *aren't* booleans.

> How do we select the preferences to expose? Manually? Could we add a 3rd
> argument to `pref()`?
> (http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/profile/firefox.
> js)

I see this as: every 6 weeks a list will be generated ( manually, at first ) of features that have landed in the current cycle. Platform suggested not only features but also perf improvements. A key goal of the feature is to raise awareness of ongoing platform work.

Comment 3

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

This is being scoped from Dev Edition for 35, kicking it to the backlog instead.

Comment 4

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

We now have about:preferences#experimental available in Nightly and we want to enable that for DevEdition too. See bug 1653484

Honza