831709 - [meta] Reboot the Style Editor

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Style Editor, defect)

Comment 1

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

This is a meta bug for the work that needs doing for the Style Editor Reboot

Includes:
- Plan how CSS changes are made and how we understand stylesheets
- Refactor existing code to fix paper-cuts with a view to future work
- Fix UX problems

Comment 2

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Related: Bug 816967 - Remotable Style Editor

Comment 3

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

I'd add bug 812083 as a dependency, to replace the splitview.

Comment 4

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

Here are a couple of things I'd like to see happen here:
- get rid of the splitview code (does the profiler use it? maybe the SideMenuWidget is the answer)
- get rid of the useless HTML bits
- rethink the UI (do we still want to have this layout? Do we want to look more like the debugger? should we remove the toolbar above the sourceeditor?)
- remove this notion of StyleEditorChrome. It adds an useless complex layer in our code.
- refactor the stylesheet loading mechanism. It's pretty messy and sometimes fail.

Comment 5

[Victor Porof [:vporof][:vp]]

How about removing the transitions (or allow disabling them with a pref). I find them a bit annoying.

Comment 6

[Heather Arthur [:harth]]

Not really doing a "reboot" anymore and we're no longer referring to this bug.