Improving WebKit's Web Inspector(blog.bogojoker.com)

54 pointsby tlrobinson17 years ago7 comments

blog.bogojoker.com

http://blog.bogojoker.com/2009/10/improving-the-web-inspector/

7 comments

jpcx0117 years ago

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

jmtame17 years ago

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

apinstein17 years ago

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

godDLL17 years ago

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

geoffb17 years ago

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.

m0digital17 years ago

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.

peoplerock17 years ago

JSON highlighting... at last. It's like someone finally cares about providing an inspector for daily use!