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About robcee

Rob Campbell

twitter: @robcee

previous: Mozilla, government, aerospace.

writer of science fiction. http://amzn.to/1NLWU8d

blog: http://robcee.net/

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    Comment #23322374

    Amazing work!

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    Comment #7716625

    have you tried the Scratchpad tool in Firefox (Shift-F4)? It's made for editing and executing as much JavaScript as you want.

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    Comment #7424900

    One bonus is that this is fully-remoted with our debugger protocol. In time, we hope to get the asset inspection parts included in our tool as well. We'll also be showing Nick Desa…

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    Comment #7225434

    Little known feature: There's also a "cookie" command in the GCLI. Shift-F2 to bring up the command line, type "help cookie".

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    Comment #6884426

    you can still use it on Nightly. http://nightly.mozilla.org/

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    Comment #6685244

    ESC key to close that sidebar in the console.

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    Comment #6671093

    see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6671062

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    Comment #6423090

    right. The point I was trying to illustrate was that the inner variable declared with a "var" keyword was visible outside its containing block. If I'd used "let" there, it would no…

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    Comment #6421085

    I usually think of "hoisting" as promoting a var outside of its containing scope to within the next block. e.g., function() { var a = 2; // b is visible here if (a == 2) { var b = …

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    Comment #6419935

    I was aware it's pretty modern but honestly didn't think about it much. We use it heavily in Firefox Devtools code and I much prefer its non-hoisting properties over var.

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    Comment #6419741

    SyntaxError: syntax error. you can't use spread arguments without the ().

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    Comment #6419052

    Not sure I agree with you. After using them for a few months, they feel pretty natural, light-weight and used close to where you define them. There's actually less thinking require…

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    Comment #6418722

    that's a good nit. I'll drop it. Thanks!

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    Comment #6418587

    it is part of ES6 and should make it to V8 eventually. Soon, I hope!

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    Comment #5744448

    You can use the Style Editor to modify CSS and see the changes applied. We're going to be adding edit support to the Debugger soon.

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    Comment #5744409

    The Security filter shows CSP errors and mixed content warnings among other things. I expect the security team will add more messages to that section of the console over time. We'r…