[webkit-dev] Development Tools on Safari

[Adam Roben]

On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Hieu Le Trung wrote:

> Can we separate the tools from WebKit menu?

I don't think I understand this question. What is the "WebKit menu"?

> I want to run them as a stand-alone and connect to existing WebKit  
> instance.

Right now each Web Inspector window is tied to a particular WebView,  
and the Web Inspector and the WebView must be in the same process.

The Chrome guys have been doing some work on having the Inspector run  
in a separate process from the WebView, but we haven't adopted that in  
Apple's ports yet.

You can use the Inspector in any WebView in any application on OS X if  
you set the WebKitDeveloperExtrasEnabledPreferenceKey preference to  
YES. Here's how you'd do it for Safari:

defaults write com.apple.Safari  
WebKitDeveloperExtrasEnabledPreferenceKey YES

Just replace "com.apple.Safari" with the bundle ID of the application  
in question.

-Adam