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The editable box model & color picker are very useful. I wonder if the editor would one day catch up so that you do your development in the browser itself.



I made my first contribution to Firefox the other day... I downloaded the source on a whim, realised I could build and run it - so went to the bug tracker.

There was a bug with the box model editor that if the labels were long (such as "auto") then they would overlap the borders. I made it so long labels will rotate 90 degrees (try it out, change the outside margin to "auto").

I'm pretty stoked that some code I wrote is in Firefox - seeing an advertised feature that I (in a small way) contributed to is pretty exciting!


Same. Credit to the team for great support and follow-ups.

Some starting points for those who wants to contribute:

* Quick start for devtools developers: https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Hacking * More general info: http://codefirefox.com/

* bugs/tasks flagged as "mentored" is a good way to introduce your self to the code. Devtools mentored tasks:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?j_top=OR&f1=compone...

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I have a huge smile on my face :)

See also the Get Involved page for devtools: https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/GetInvolved


Any chance of getting the bug ID? I am genuinely curious about the the changes made and the review process for such a bug :)





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