[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 145982] Web Inspector:

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145982

--- Comment #3 from Chris Chiera <chris at heavymark.com> ---
Thank you for your response.

Guess I'm still finding the logic hard to understand on Safari's implementation compared to Chromes.

When selecting a rule, the highlighting the whole word would seem better than adding the cursor since users (I think) far more often than not will be replacing the whole word rather than making a spelling change (in regards to words not numbers that is). Do you believe that not to be the case?

Thank for your the tip on using the option keys however also believe Chrome's approach to be better. You mention arrows (with option is for scrolling up/down the page. In Chrome you can scroll up/down a page with arrows to, however when editing a number in the inspector at that time, the up/down will change the values which makes sense since at the exact moment in time you choose a to edit a number in the inspect you are well editing that number and not trying to up and down the page. But also maybe there is some use case that I'm missing that would make that not so?

While I probably sound like a broken record, the tab/enter implemention in Chrome seems to make far more sense as well. In both Chrome and safari  you can tab from the rule name to the rule value, but in Chrome clicking tab again allows you then to go straight to creating a new rule and so on. Where is in chrome you have to go back and forth between tabs and returns. The tab logic seems to make the most sense like if I were filling out a form in Chrome (or Safari) after I fill out the first to forms inputs on one line to get to the next line of inputs I wouldn't have to click enter/return, I'd simply be able to keep clicking tab to get to the next tabs no matter that they are on a separate line.  

In regards to new rule, I may have not described the issue and/or using wrong terminology. So in Chrome to I select something in the HTML and then click the top right + to add a style to that. The plus if you hold down also lets you choose which style sheet to add the rule to. In Safari, I have to scroll down past the pseudo styles to find the large new rule button to do the same. Would be great if it were always at the top, and if an option to add the rule to particular stylesheets from the document like in Chrome. Chrome allows you to also add an inline style by clicking the style part at the top which can come in handy sometimes which I don't think is possible on Safari (unless you manually edit the html in the html side of the inspector). I don't know if Chrome is doing best, just it seems better than Safari in that regard. But hopefully there is room for improvement in Safari in regards to adding styles. 

Hope this all comes off as helpful and not stubborn. I love love the look and feel (and better memory/tab management/battery life savings of Safari. Though currently Chrome while less pretty offers a superior experience for power users. A lot of these little items can make or break it for developers and know once the inspector is up to par with chromes that devs would start using it more as their primary browser and then share that recommendation with their non technical friends and family. Though just my opinion and understand if Apple has their own private reasons in regards to the above compared to chrome's implementation. Or maybe Apple devs have unique use cases that make them prefer safari's implementations that I'm not aware of but figured I'd give it a go, before switching back to chrome at least for development. Safari ROCKS for browsing!

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