592003 - Web Console Should Activate When Panorama is Shown

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

Description

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

Steps to reproduce:

(1) Go the Panorama
(2) Attempt to open the Web Console
(3) Nothing happens

What should happen is the Web Console should be shown so that we can debug new features, have extension authors able to easily introspect and debug their Panorama extensions, and that we can show off the awesomeness of HTML.

Ddahl thinks that it is simply because we don't have the right DOM structure. He'll write more soon.

Comment 1

[David Dahl :ddahl]

I'm thinking we need to support new configuration options that manually set the scope and parent DOM node for the console to activate in.

Comment 2

[David Dahl :ddahl]

The only issue I can see to make this not work is that you are using an iframe and not a browser element as the "root" of panorama's DOM.

The console is pretty welded to that paradigm: browser->document or window->document. I'll have to experiment with passing in the iframe as the "contentWindow".

Comment 3

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

not likely to get this for fx4, but we're talking about rebuilding the console using the addon-sdk and provide a globally-scoped console in the process. That should hopefully fulfill this requirement.

Comment 4

[Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine [:mitcho]]

Sounds great. We'll look forward to it, post-fx4.

Comment 5

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Chrome errors aren't shown in the Web Console afaik. As such, this bug is invalid and useless...

Comment 6

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

this will be fixed by a global console.