[webkit-dev] Experimental features in Safari Web Inspector

[Mihai Balan]

Pavel, thanks for your suggestions. I'll be looking into this on Monday ;-)

Mihai Balan | Quality Engineer / WebKit team |  mibalan at adobe.com<mailto:mibalan at adobe.com> | +4-031.413.3653 / x83653 | Adobe Systems Romania

From: pfeldman at google.com [mailto:pfeldman at google.com] On Behalf Of Pavel Feldman
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:21 AM
To: Dean Jackson
Cc: Mihai Balan; webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Experimental features in Safari Web Inspector


On Sep 27, 2012 1:56 AM, "Dean Jackson" <dino<mailto:dino at apple.com>@<mailto:dino at apple.com>apple.com<mailto:dino at apple.com>> wrote:
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> On 26/09/2012, at 6:15 PM, Mihai Balan <mibalan<mailto:mibalan at adobe.com>@<mailto:mibalan at adobe.com>adobe.com<mailto:mibalan at adobe.com>> wrote:
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>> We have recently been working on some WebInspector features related to CSS Regions. Most of the work was done using Chromium's Developer Tools, as this allowed us to have this work under a DevTools experiment flag.
>> Now that this work has reached a more stable state, it would be useful to test it under Webkit/Safari, too.
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>> So, my question for you is this (ok, that's actually two questions):
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>>     1. Is there a way to enable / disable features in Safari DevTools the way it is in Chromium's? It doesn't have to be a GUI, though
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> No.

We should probably enable experiments in WebKit nightly (i.e. Experiments tab will be enabled in WebKit Web Inspector's settings at all times). I can do that for you or r+ such a patch.

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>>     2. What is the general policy for WebInspector features? How and when do they get enabled by default, at least in the nightlies? (Since regions are already enabled by default in the nightlies, IMO it would make sense to have the web inspector regions features, too)
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The process of adding features into WebKit Web Inspector is very lightweight. When you think the feature is ready for the prime time, make a patch moving it out of experimental. We will review it and suggest if something is missing.

Regards
Pavel

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> Safari's Web Inspector lives in the Safari.app, so nightlies do not automatically get new features. The best thing to do is implement it in the Open Source inspector (as you've done) and Apple will (hopefully) merge it in. You can also file a bug at bugreporter.apple.com<http://bugreporter.apple.com> explicitly requesting it.
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