On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:43 PM, cheekybuddha <[email protected]> wrote: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebug-working-group/GNCZeL1eWq8 > > ... but life moves on. > > Thanks John for your amazing contribution to Firebug over the last few years > and making the lives of many many developers a whole lot easier.
Agreed. I noted that John was coming to us from IBM, and wondered whether IBM was subsidizing his work On Firebug. IBM has paid engineers to work on open source projects IBM uses internally, so it seemed likely, but IBM apparently decided not to continue that support. With Honza, Pedro, and others on board, FB isn't exactly dying - it's still vital and widely used. And the re-architecture John mentions sounds like it will provide opportunities. Seeing the new Web Console introduced in FF 6 (which looks a lot like Firebug), I wondered how much Firebug could leverage off of existing features when present, without doing everything itself, and simply add on to what the browser's native debugging already offered and provide an interface largely the same across browsers and an API that would make FB extensions cross-browser too. We'll see. Meanwhile, a bow of deep respect to John, and heartfelt thanks for his contributions. _____ Dennis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
