641666 - Document where the global 'console' object's messages go

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

I expected the global 'console' object's messages to go to the Error Console, but they weren't going there. It was pointed out to me on IRC that this is because when you run Firefox from the command line the messages go there, but when you run it normally they go to the Error Console. I found this quite unexpected and really wish it was documented in the documentation for the global 'console' object, and also in the introductory material when 'console' is first used.

Comment 1

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Attachment: Patch for a few small docs bugs

This patch includes the fix for this bug but also: bug 600431, bug 641442, 641658, 577772.

Comment 2

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created attachment 521866 [details] [diff] [review]
> Patch for a few small docs bugs
> 
This patch includes the fix for this bug but also: bug 600431, bug 641442, bug 641658, bug 577772.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Comment on attachment 521866 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for a few small docs bugs

> `lib/foo.js` may make the following call to retrieve an absolute url
> to `data/mydata.dat`:

Nit: url -> URL (since you're here)


>-    var mydata = packaging.getURLForData("/mydata.dat");
>+    var myDataUrl = packaging.getURLForData("/mydata.dat");

Nit: myDataUrl => myDataURL (for consistency with convention, including getURLForData call)

Comment 4

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Fixed by: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/bc518ee9aa5ca2cf5c318d635f60b9795d1d814d