[webkit-dev] User Stylesheets changes I'd like to make

Anthony Ricaud rik24d at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 14:49:55 PDT 2009


Is it possible to support liveness when Developer Tools are enabled ?

Le 4 sept. 2009 à 22:02, David Hyatt a écrit :

> A second change I would like to make is to eliminate the "liveness"  
> of the sheet..  With support coming online for both injected user  
> scripts and user stylesheets, I expect that a better way to deal  
> with this is to have a Develop menu item (or inspector item) to  
> reload all user content.
>
> Automatic liveness seems like a non-goal other than for user  
> stylesheet *developers*, and having to examine local files every  
> time you open a new tab/window just to support developers seems like  
> the wrong trade-off to me.  That this is happening in the engine  
> process can't be good for Chrome either, and going forward we should  
> be discouraging file accesses like this from being done inside  
> WebCore.
>
> dave
> (hyatt at apple.com)
>
> On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:
>
>> On 9/4/09 9:47 PM, David Hyatt wrote:
>>> Right now the user stylesheet location is stored as a URL.  This is
>>> based off ancient history, namely that we happened to store the
>>> preference this way on Mac. Even though Safari only allows you to  
>>> pick
>>> local files from its UI for user stylesheets, the preference  
>>> itself is a
>>> URL. Because of this, the current code is making an assumption that
>>> remote URLs should be allowed to work as user stylesheets. On Mac  
>>> and Qt
>>> only, we have a UserStyleSheetLoader object that is dealing with  
>>> remote
>>> URLs. Other platforms seem to just not support this.
>>>
>>> I would like to eliminate this object on all platforms.
>>
>> Sounds good.
>>
>> Tor Arne
>>
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