[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 24273] Inspector Plugins or Extend Capability

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24273


Timothy Hatcher <timothy at hatcher.name> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Timothy Hatcher <timothy at hatcher.name>  2009-10-29 11:12:43 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Some more thinking on this.  Again, related to localStorage.  (note: there used
> to be a "settings" facility available on InspectorController, on the JS side,
> which is now gone).
> 
> The idea is to create a new debugger command called "!settings", or some such. 
> Think "defauilts" on the Mac command-line.  This would be a general purpose
> facility to provide a read/write store for settings for Inspector related
> things.
> 
> Next, have a setting called "userScript".  If set, this would be considered a
> file name, and at the end of inspector.js we'd dynamically add a new <script>
> element to the inspector's main document with that file.
> 
> The story would then be something like this:
> 
> - develop your extension in a .js file somewhere on your local file system
> - while in Inspector, at the command console prompt, run
>    !settings set userScript /users/foo/myExtension/main.js
> - next time Inspector loads, that script will load at the end, via the
> dynamically inserted <script> element
> - to "turn the extension off", run
>    !settings delete userScript
> 
> Lots of issues here, but would be a way to get started playing with the concept
> of extending the Inspector, inexpensively.

This is an interesting idea, and a cheap way to try it out.

In the end we will want to read a list of files from a directory and load them
automatically.

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