My last attempt at visualizing the Mozilla class hierarchy ended up being way too slow to be useful. So I based my second attempt on using a different tree layout. After quite a few scalability optimizations, the graphing performance is now bearable.
This class browser uses the canvas tag to draw the pretty boxes & lines and links back into lxr. The class browser consumes a JSON file produced by running DeHydra on the layout/ directory. I am happy that I am finally able to examine gigantic code graphs interactively thanks to the
In the near future I hope to produce a few different kinds of complete graphs of the entire Firefox codebase. The idea is to have them generated nightly. Then that if someone has a general question about the Firefox codebase, it could be expressed as JavaScript within an interactive console in the browser. The answer would be either be graphed or returned as a JSON object.