Open Bug 738970 Opened 13 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Make scope chains inspectable

Categories

(DevTools :: Debugger, enhancement, P5)

6 Branch
x86
Linux
enhancement

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(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: bruant.d, Unassigned)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

I think it'd be interesting, when stopped at a breakpoint, to have a visual representation of nested function lexical environments.
Currently, Firebug provides a list visualization of function environments. It would be nice to have something more visual. Maybe something close to what is done for bug 738968.
possibly. This could be an interesting experiment or addon.
Agreed. We discussed something similar during jimb's talk last week.
By the way, are there slides or a write-up or anything about jimb's talk?
The information I know about the new debugger API is the MDN documentation and I don't know how up-to-date it is.
(In reply to David Bruant from comment #3)
> By the way, are there slides or a write-up or anything about jimb's talk?
> The information I know about the new debugger API is the MDN documentation
> and I don't know how up-to-date it is.

I don't think slides are available yet, but I don't believe they would be of much use without Jim's oral comments. The definitive guide is in the wiki:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Debugger
Priority: -- → P4
Summary: JavaScript nested function scope visualization → Make scope chains inspectable
Depends on: dbg-inspect
Blocks: dbg-inspect
No longer depends on: dbg-inspect
Product: Firefox → DevTools
Type: defect → enhancement
Priority: P4 → P5
Severity: normal → S3
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