[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 181805] New: Web Inspector: Layers tab should do away with popovers (if possible)

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Thu Jan 18 10:56:10 PST 2018


https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181805

            Bug ID: 181805
           Summary: Web Inspector: Layers tab should do away with popovers
                    (if possible)
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Web Inspector
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: ross.kirsling at sony.com
                CC: inspector-bugzilla-changes at group.apple.com

Background
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As Matt Baker (among others) has pointed out, the Layers tab's details sidebar has a bit of an identity crisis:
- Part of its usage allows one to navigate the visualization, but the tabular data means we can't make it a nav sidebar.
- It *does* display all the details for the visualization, yet it's not "optional" like other details sidebars, because the data for the selected layer is buried in its popover.

Proposal
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Eliminate the popover and display the selected layer information as part of the main panel.

Specifically, keep the same data arrangement but display it in a div that sits on top of the visualization canvas at the top left corner.
(Note that putting it *in* the visualization would be counterproductive, since we don't want it to move around in 3D space.)

If we do this, I think the awkwardness of the details sidebar show more or less go away.

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