It made me go look in the menu and discovered the new Responsive design mode in FF15, it will be a valuable tool.
Also useful is the webmaster plugin which has a feature that displays a variety of page sizes in a new tab.
New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
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Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#32It 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 ex…
perhaps use javascript for that?
Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
A mouse is fine for indicating existing nouns. But describing a brand-new thing is more difficult.
Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#34Amazing that after all these years, the mouse, perhaps the most iconic symbol of the PC, is being ditched for just about every application.
Hardly.
Why is everybody always black and white about everything?
Regular human language is multimodal, with words, explicit gestures like pointing, and body language layered over both of these (Though most geeks are deaf when it comes to the latter).
Which is easier, "Look at that [finger pointing at target]" or "Look at that strange thing on your 2 o'clock"? We have many options and we use what's best in each circumstance.
Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#35Neat, 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.
It's a little bit confusing, but "console clear" is typed at the developer toolbar, not from within the console. The dev toolbar could hook into multiple things you'd want to clear, so that's why it's 'namespaced' that way.
You can just type clear() if you're focused on the webconsole.
Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#36And yet firebug is still the better console. Why do fancy things like tilt and this input box have priority over getting basic things like the console output under control? Just look at this example side by side and tell me which one you prefer: http://i.imgur.com/tKr87.png
Agreed. They need to solidify the core console experience before putting in these extra features. It feels wrong having to install Firebug to get a decent element inspector / console when there's already one build in.
Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#37I wonder if this shares code with the promising-but-defunct Ubiquity project? https://vimeo.com/1561578 Edit: if you don't feel like watching a video, here's what it's about: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/ubiquity-in-depth/
I've had so much hope in Ubiquity; let's hope this will get a nicer model for writing extensions and a "package" manager (I'd love something like Sublime2 has).
Ubiquity continued development recently
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-...
Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Responsive design doesn't mean what you apparently think it does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_design
Ah! Thanks. So if I say "responsive" in relation to a computer, are people now going to think I'm talking about webpage layout? To me, "responsive" means the amount of time between when I issue a command and when the computer has completed what I asked it to do.
I fail to understand why this phrase is offending you so badly.
Let’s look at a more interesting example. The current design of
mozilla.org is a responsive design. I want to see how the headings
will show up on a smaller screen. If I’ve been working on the page, I
would likely know some of the IDs and structure used in the page, so
I could enter a command like:
This is how web devs use "responsive design". It's being used by a web dev, in an article for other web devs. You might find it slightly confusing, but that's your problem, not theirs.
OS programmers and corn farmers use the word "kernel" to mean two different things, is this also a crime against nature?
Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've had so much hope in Ubiquity; let's hope this will get a nicer model for writing extensions and a "package" manager (I'd love something like Sublime2 has).
Ubiquity continued development recently https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozilla-labs-...
I don't think so. Only major thing I see is the homepage URL changed to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity
Re: New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
#40I really hope they add "cache clear", "cache disable", "cache enable", etc.