Closed Bug 1054360 Opened 10 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Web platform feature console

Categories

(DevTools :: General, defect)

x86
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: canuckistani, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [status:backlog])

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.
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)
(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.
No longer blocks: fx-dev-edition
This is being scoped from Dev Edition for 35, kicking it to the backlog instead.
Whiteboard: [status:planned] → [status:backlog]
Component: Developer Tools: User Stories → Developer Tools
Product: Firefox → DevTools

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

Honza

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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