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Improving WebKit's Web Inspector

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Re: Improving WebKit's Web Inspector

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Post by jmtame »

huge improvement! i'd say it's almost up to par with firebug (which makes firefox practically useless to me except for the purpose of testing)

a few suggestions:

- replace the light blue with the yellow (or maybe purple) highlight when you're traversing over DOM elements in the "inspect" mode

- stick the search button at the top of the bar, or create a shortcut for it so i can use it quickly and easily

- yeah, nice move on getting rid of rgb values

Re: Improving WebKit's Web Inspector

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Post by jpcx01 »

Changes hugely appreciated. Firefox on mac has become a pig. But I keep using it because of firebug (which has tons of features still lacking in web inspector). These changes bring things closer, but not quite enough.

We need an "edit" button (to edit html text). Plz

Re: Improving WebKit's Web Inspector

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Post by geoffb »

Welcome improvements, for sure. I've been using WebKit (Safari, specifically) as my main development browser after abandoning FF some weeks ago and these additions address many of my migration annoyances. RGB colors and easily added CSS selectors are huge.

If we could get default rendering of XML and JSON documents (like the JSONView add-on provides for FF) I would be a very happy camper.

Re: Improving WebKit's Web Inspector

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Post by apinstein »

jmtame wrote: post #2

huge improvement! i'd say it's almost up to par with firebug (which makes firefox practically useless to me except for the purpose of testing) a few suggestions: - replace the light blue with the yellow (or maybe purple) highlight when you're traversing over DOM elements in the "inspect" mode - stick the search button at the top of the bar, or create a shortcut for it so i can use it quickly and easily - yeah, nice m…

FYI Mac OS X has a configurable highlight color in the Appearance system preference pane... he's probably (or should be) using that.

Re: Improving WebKit's Web Inspector

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Post by m0digital »

I've always used the latest WebKit nightlies to get the latest Inspector updates.

I've moved over to Chrome for OSX last week and haven't looked back. Whats nice about updates to the Inspector is that they'll be in Chrome as well.

IMO, Chrome now has the best of both worlds: Faster/better browsing (I like the tabs on top) experience and superb inspector.

Re: Improving WebKit's Web Inspector

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Post by godDLL »

apinstein wrote: post #6
jmtame wrote: post #2

huge improvement! i'd say it's almost up to par with firebug (which makes firefox practically useless to me except for the purpose of testing) a few suggestions: - replace the light blue with the yellow (or maybe purple) highlight when you're traversing over DOM elements in the "inspect" mode - stick the search button at the top of the bar, or create a shortcut for it so i can use it quickly and easily - yeah, nice m…

FYI Mac OS X has a configurable highlight color in the Appearance system preference pane... he's probably (or should be) using that.

He's not. I have mine set to lime-ish green, but the highlights are still blue.
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