[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 16083] Web Inspector does not show Namespace URI for nodes.

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16083





------- Comment #2 from drj at pobox.com  2007-11-22 00:58 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> Showing the namespace was not moved to the new inspector because we now show
> the whole DOM, not just "important" attributes. So the xmlns attribute is
> visible, just on some parent element. Thinking about it, I can see how knowing
> the namespace of a given node might be helpful. But in the old inspector, it
> almost always just reported the HTML NS, since most pages are HTML.

It's when we're creating XML documents with elements from multiple namespaces
that showing the namespace is useful.  An SVG document in an XHTML document is
likely to have 3 namespaces (XHTML, SVG, XLINK); it's not hard to image adding
things like XSL and FO to that list.  A lot of the documents I'm dealing with
at the moment have most of their elements created dynamically and in different
namespaces.  A tool that helps me debug this is useful, and the old HUD Web
Inspector was better in this regard.

Most pages might well be HTML, but that doesn't mean that most pages I look at
in the Web Inspector are!


> 
> I am not sure where the best place to show this info would be. Another sidebar
> pane?

As I don't really do UI design I'm not sure either.  I still think it's a bug
even if neither of us can think of a good way to show it.


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