Comments on: Web Inspector Updates

By: tvdeyen

tvdeyen — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:21:18 +0000

You had me with eventListeners Inspector. 1000 Up for this!

When can we expect Apple to merge this in to Safari?
I hope very soon

By: simianpirate

simianpirate — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:03:24 +0000

@Bret Thank you for pointing me to it… I should have known it was a Vlad Studio work!

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:39:57 +0000

Desktop/wallpaper:

http://www.vladstudio.com/wallpaper/?wheresmilesareborn_2009

By: richcon

richcon — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:38:12 +0000

Awesome work!

By: simianpirate

simianpirate — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:49:18 +0000

I am very impressed with the additions and changes made to this already excellent tool.

I do have a question if someone could answer it for me.

I really like the background of that last image. Where can I find that?

By: Mark Rowe

Mark Rowe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:15:21 +0000

I’ll restate it here since some commenters appear to have missed it in the original post:

Finally, if you have ideas for new features, any improvements, or if you’ve stumbled across a bug then please don’t hesitate to create a bug report.

By: Adam Roben

Adam Roben — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:11:02 +0000

@POWRSURG: Yes, these features work on all operating systems. The only exception is that some platforms might not show the “hidden information” for cookies, as mentioned in the post. Because the Web Inspector is mostly written in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, all platforms benefit from improvements to it!

By: bartszyszka

bartszyszka — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:49:04 +0000

This is great! My only problem with the Inspector right now is the way margins/padding/borders get handled by it. It’s not as easy to see what’s the margin, what’s the padding, what’s the border as it is in Firebug (where those those are three different colors with not extra outlines). And for someone who cares about measuring things to the pixel the outlines around them are confusing (is the width of the margin what’s inside the outline or including it? which shade of light blue is the padding and which shade is the element and which shade is the margin?).

By: Adam Roben

Adam Roben — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:47:22 +0000

Nice work everyone! It’s really impressive how quickly the Web Inspector has been advancing in recent months.

By: POWRSURG

POWRSURG — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:07:00 +0000

Doubtful, but does this mean WebKit does a better job with getComputedStyle? Perhaps no longer resulting in a page reflow? I have an application that requires a ton of element insertions followed by getComputedStyle calls and this results in very high CPU utilization to the point where WebKit browsers are effectively unusable. Normally I wouldn’t bring it up as I recognize that it is slightly off topic, but I thought that changes like this to the Web Inspector might only be possible if issues with getting elements style were cleared up.

Just based on the screenshots I have to ask, are these features available for all operating systems, or just on the Mac?