[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 24529] Add support in Web Inspector for examining/changing data for HTML5 offline-Web-applications (application cache)

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24529


Patrick Mueller <pmuellr at yahoo.com> changed:

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                 CC|                            |pmuellr at yahoo.com,
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--- Comment #2 from Patrick Mueller <pmuellr at yahoo.com>  2009-10-02 11:41:26 PDT ---
Wondering if we could do something in the Resources panel.  Again, this could
be selector based, like All/Documents/Stylesheets selectors at the top, only
show the different states of the resources in question.  Semantically this
works, as long as every resource you're interested in actually shows up in the
resources list on the left - not sure that's the case - specifically, resources
that weren't accessed, might you want to know about them as well?

The selector-based scheme would be very useful to identify the resources by
"how it was accessed", but we still probably want an indication associated with
the each resource indicating how it was accessed.  

Thoughts:

- doesn't seem appropriate to add it to the resource header information
available when you click on the resource - it should probably be available
right in the resources list itself, or in the timeline.

- showing another icon next to the resource name seems like it's making that
part of the UI too busy.  

- perhaps we could augment the file icon with a "decorator" the way Eclipse
applies SCM and Java type decorators to icons.  Specifically, these are little
"add-on" icons that get displayed directly to the left or right of the icon,
augmenting the original.  

- Another thought would be augnmenting the timeline - perhaps put some kind of
icon just before the individual timeline (or sometimes blob) indicating how the
resource was retrieved.

- Another thought is to display a new type of Graph, in addition to Time and
Size.  Could reuse the same values for the time graph, but use different colors
indicating how the resource was accessed.

Beyond all that, it would be nice to have a summary of the type of information
a developer would actually like to see.  I've played with app-cache myself, and
found it unbelievably frustrating to debug - I ended up tailing my apache logs
to figure out what was going on - but I don't know all the ins-and-outs of this
stuff yet.  Do we want to have some special behaviour for the app-cache events,
for instance?  (no clue where that might go)

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