Looking at the Web Developer changelogs the average period of time between major releases has been about six weeks. With six weeks having passed since the 0.7 release I thought I would give a status report and explain why the 0.8 release is not yet ready to go.
The biggest amount of time on 0.8 has undoubtedly been spent on adding localization support. I had not even thought about localization support when originally creating the extension and so I have had to retrofit it into the code. This is a pretty dull task which takes a fair amount of time and has not exactly inspired me to work on the extension. However, it is now almost complete with only the options dialog to work on so this has allowed me to move on to coding new features.
As well as creating a Pinstripe theme — now that I have my Mac — I have added the following features:
- Display Access Keys
- Display Link Paths
- Display Tab Index
- Display Topographic Information
- Make Form Fields Writable
- Outline Frames
- Populate Form Fields
- Show Comments
With these features complete the plan is to finish adding localization support and then move on to some of the other things on the to-do list, particularly the ‘Edit CSS’ improvements. If you have ideas for new features or enhancements that you would like to see added then please contact me or add a comment.
Sorry if this is a repost. I swear I did post a comment but I didnt find it today.
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It would be great if WD would allow me to change the properties of a window so that if a window is not resizable one could make it resizable.
Also, to show the window’s dimension on the title bar and to update this measurmente while we resize the window.
Thanks!
I’m not sure if you can make a window resizable after it has opened as non-resizable, but if I can find a way then I’ll add it in.
I like the window dimension in the title bar idea though and will add that to the to-do list.
Sounds good. But please make that an option, so it won’t be there all the time.
And what is ‘localization support’ exactly?
Thanks! Great job!
Yes — the title bar window dimension will definitely be an option, not an always on feature.
I really should have described what localization support means…
Basically it will allow the extension to be easily translated for different languages, which has been a common request from many people when English is not their first language. Mozilla.org has more information if you are interested.
You may be interested in this post:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=73423
Awesome, form populate, i cant wait for the next release, i love this plugin, it helps me all the time
Would be nice if the “Add user Stylesheet” could be configured to always add a certain stylesheet. I created a special one to outline frames, tables, images and so on in one turn and would like beeing able to always use this one withhout first having to select it in the file-system.
Maybe an additional “Add configured Stylesheet” option?
How about a function key to toggle the web developer toolbar on and off. Prefbar does this nicely with F8. It gives you more window space when you don’t need that toolbar, but lets you get it back quicker than going through the menus.
I was using 6.1 and very happy. I tried to install 7 but get an error –215. Any idea what might be causing it. I’m on a Mac OS X 10.3.3?
It’s best to contact me if you have a problem, but a –215 error means that a file is read-only — most likely the webdeveloper.jar.
Fix the permissions and you should be able to install fine.