[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 172966] Remove legacy INSPECTOR_SERVER implementation

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172966

--- Comment #24 from Don Olmstead <don.olmstead at am.sony.com> ---
(In reply to Carlos Garcia Campos from comment #17)
> (In reply to Don Olmstead from comment #13)
> > (In reply to Olivier Blin from comment #10)
> > > (In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #8)
> > > > (In reply to Olivier Blin from comment #7)
> > > > > We are WPE users, and we know that in the set-top box market, quite some web
> > > > > app developers are today connecting to the remote web inspector from a
> > > > > Windows OS.
> > > > 
> > > > I really think compatibility with non-WebKit browsers should be a non-goal.
> > > > That's really out there. If it works at all today with the WebSocket server,
> > > > that's just due to luck.
> > > 
> > > Well, it would make web developers life a lot easier if it just worked from
> > > Chrome.
> > 
> > From
> > https://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2017/05/03/webkitgtk-remote-debugging-in-2-
> > 18/ it sounds like you couldn't even use Safari to do a remote debugging
> > session. Is this correct? Our users are primarily developing on Macs.
> 
> Correct.

Ok well that's a pretty big deal breaker for us.

Is there any way to have a cross-platform remote inspector? If not I think we're going to ask to revert this and then enable the inspector server within wincairo.

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