On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 7:35 PM, Anthony Jones <ajo...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I'm chuffed to announce that Web Replay has finally made its way into > nightly. It brings tardis like functionality (or perhaps rr like) to > Firefox Devtools, enabling recording and replaying of tab behavior, and > best of all, stepping backwards and running backwards. This could be > transformative for Web Developers using Firefox. For more detail you can > watch Jason Laster's talk at JS conf[1], or see bug 1422587[2]. > > The project has been a roller coaster of excitement, architectural concern > and finally relief. We've now got something to try out, for SpiderMonkey > devs to work around and for everyone to think about its impact. As with any > work-in-progress, it has some caveats: > > * It is only supported on Mac > * It is pref'ed off > * It doesn't support certain web features, such as video playback > > For now it is considered tier-3 until we've got more information about how > it fits into Firefox. Try to avoid regressing its functionality, but if you > need to do so (to get your work done) then file a bug in the Web Replay > component. > > It is still in as-is-where-is condition but you're welcome to try it > out[3]. Please let me know your thoughts if you do. > It is linked from the bug, but just to make it easier to find: if you want a fairly digestible overview of how it works, the wiki page for it is pretty good. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/WebReplay Andrew > > Anthony > > [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL37ZVnwpeshG2YXJkun_ > lyNTtM-Qb3MKa&time_continue=1327&v=rDq1AN1kSn4 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422587 > [3] https://gist.github.com/jasonLaster/1e220992c294a571dd9b59abd084ccf2 > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
