Re: JS debugger on conceptual level

"John J. Barton" <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:54:11 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.jsdebugger
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
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> 
> Well fine. I apologize if I was not very strict in terms of terminology. 

(I did not mean to imply you were in any sense incorrect, I was agreeing 
with you).

> I can't think of any external interfaces that we have for debugging. In 
> fact, just in general the only interfaces I can think of that manipulate 
> Gecko/"Mozilla"/Firefox from the outside (without sneaking in on the 
> inside first) are gtkmozembed and the Mozilla ActiveX control. Neither 
> allows you the kind of control you want for debugging, I'm pretty sure.

We are trying to get a proxied debugging solution going over on the 
webdebugprotocol group and Mike Collins at IBM is working on 
Firebug/Firefox code for this.

jjb