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New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster

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Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster

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Post by superxor »

The FF dev tools offer a very different experience compared to Chrome. I am curious about the rationale between having different views for web inspector & debugger.

I am on Aurora/Ubuntu. The binding for the Debugger (Ctrl-Shft-S) doesn't seem to work for me and the Dev toolbar has no way to open the debugger view.

Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster

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Post by lucian303 »

tambourine_man wrote: post #7

Amazing that after all these years, the mouse, perhaps the most iconic symbol of the PC, is being ditched for just about every application.

It maybe iconic, however, it's a horrible device for pointing from the point of health and ergonomics. And even with all the improvements, I've never seen a mouse handled more accurately than a proper trackball (see Logitech M570). Of course, that depends on the user.

Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster

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Post by greenyoda »

It would be nice if the command line supported a shell-like language that would allow you to easily parameterize and script these Firefox commands. So instead of running one command at a time, you could create files that ran commands sequentially, iteratively, etc. There could even be syntax that sets variables to the values of arbitrary JavaScript expressions (which would give you access to any DOM attribute, for example).

Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster

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Post by nameuserc »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #15

Neat, but "console clear" to clear struck me. A bit verbose, no? After years of "cls" (aliased on unix) I might not bother with the number of keystrokes required.

I save ESC2J to a file and my "cls" is simply another file consisting of

cat file1

in my PATH. Only because sometimes printf or some other way to print ESC's might not be available.

The idea of starting up X11 so I can start the super-sized code complexity experiment that calls itself "Firefox", all just to get to a command line struck me. The fact they are calling the approach at Mozilla as "responsive design" I found insulting.

Are they in denial about just how big and complex Firefox is? This is not how you attain responsive design.

Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster

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Post by sbierwagen »

nameuserc wrote: post #17
mixmastamyk wrote: post #15

Neat, but "console clear" to clear struck me. A bit verbose, no? After years of "cls" (aliased on unix) I might not bother with the number of keystrokes required.

I save ESC2J to a file and my "cls" is simply another file consisting of cat file1 in my PATH. Only because sometimes printf or some other way to print ESC's might not be available. The idea of starting up X11 so I can start the super-sized code complexity experiment that calls itself "Firefox", all just to get to a command line struck me. The fact they are calling the approach at Mozilla as "responsive design" I fou…

Responsive design doesn't mean what you apparently think it does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_design

Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster

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Post by aidos »

sp332 wrote: post #8
tambourine_man wrote: post #7

Amazing that after all these years, the mouse, perhaps the most iconic symbol of the PC, is being ditched for just about every application.

A mouse is OK for expressing verbs, not so much nouns or adjectives.

Could you explain what you mean? Seems to me that the mouse is best at expressing nouns - well, the things you see on screen...I'm obviously misunderstanding.
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