Josh Matthews wrote: > I sent these messages to the webtools mailing list, but it doesn't > seem to be very active, so I'm hoping there will be a bit more > feedback here (read: >0). > > I'm hoping to get a bit of feedback on an idea for a Summer of > Code project. David Mandelin suggested [1] combining Dehydra and > MXR to give it abilities which have previously been discussed on > this list: ie. clicking on a variable name takes you to its > definition, or hovering over it will show you its type in a > tooltip. Contextual information like this will make MXR far more > powerful than it currently is, and without having taken a look at > either the Dehydra or MXR codebases yet, I feel like it might make > a reasonable SoC project to hook them up and produce some > meaningful output. Any comments from those more knowledgeable than I? > > Cheers, > Josh > > > In the hopes of generating a bit of feedback, I've attached a mockup > of what the new Dehydra+MXR fusion interface could look like. I > envision it as a box that appears when you hover over an identifier > that is AJAX-ically loaded with the conxtextual information from > Dehydra. There could easily be a keybinding to toggle the hints if > they keep getting in the way, and this way would avoid slowing down > page load times with all of the extra information. What kind of links > or text would be best to place in the hint, though? I've used the > example described on David Mandelin's post [1] to illustrate what I'm > getting at. > > Cheers, > Josh > > [1] http://blog.mozilla.com/dmandelin/2008/03/03/mxr-your-dehydra/ >
Josh, I think this would be an excellent summer of code project. I the new lxr features should be fleshed out better. What about class browsing (my silly example http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2007/04/23/mozilla-class-browser/), listing who calls which method, etc? Also, once you add JavaScript to lxr, might as well optimize it further by generating line numbers dynamically to speed it up. I added this proposal to http://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode08:Brainstorming#Mozilla_Platform. Taras _______________________________________________ Dev-static-analysis mailing list Dev-static-analysis@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-static-analysis
