I recently put some time into developing a Firebug extension to display log messages From SL4B – Caplin’s Ajax Streaming Library. Usually these messages are displayed in a popup window that will close and re-open on every refresh of Caplin Trader.
Most of the developers at Caplin already have Firebug open during development anyway so why not incorporate something into Firebug while at the same time overcoming some of the annoyances of popup windows, and hopefully overcoming some of the performance implications of them at the same time?
There aren’t exactly a huge number of articles outlining Firebug extensions in detail, but I did manage to find a series of tutorials by Jan Odvarko that would prove to be useful. I also found digging through the Firebug source extremely useful. (More …)
