[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 38664] New: Web Inspector: add a "table" method to console, to allow output of tabular data

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38664

           Summary: Web Inspector: add a "table" method to console, to
                    allow output of tabular data
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Web Inspector
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: pmuellr at yahoo.com
                CC: timothy at hatcher.name, rik at webkit.org,
                    keishi at webkit.org, pmuellr at yahoo.com,
                    joepeck at webkit.org, pfeldman at chromium.org,
                    yurys at chromium.org, bweinstein at apple.com


Requirement comes from the wildfire/firephp work.  See bug 30897 more info.

Both Wildfire -
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.log.writers.html#zend.log.writers.firebug
(scroll down for "Table Logging") - and FirePHP -
http://www.firephp.org/HQ/Use.htm (scroll down for "Logging Messages / Tables")
- have support to log tabular information.

We should just go ahead and add this support to the console object directly,
since it would be useful in other contexts.

Thoughts:

- method: console.table(array2D)
- array2D is expected to be an array of arrays (or array-like things)
- top-level array is the list of rows
- table size should be #rows x max(length of 2nd level arrays)
- first row are the column headers
- initially just use toString() on the cell elements, maybe expand to full
object later
- alternate row coloring, like other tables in WI 
- left-align strings, right-align other primitives
- column sorting (prolly add later)
- allow collapsing to just 1st row (column headings)

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