Bug 135570

Summary:	Web Inspector: timeline overview view state is not saved with BackForwardEntry navigations
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Brian Burg <burg>
Component:	Web Inspector	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	Normal	CC:	graouts, inspector-bugzilla-changes, webkit-bug-importer
Priority:	P2	Keywords:	InRadar
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	136292

Description Brian Burg 2014-08-04 12:55:46 PDT

Each back/forward entry currently represents a navigation + view state. Differing view states cannot create new back/forward entries. View states store the effects of user interaction within a content view, provided that the interaction doesn't create a new navigation.

Saved view state is currently limited to scroll positions of elements nominated by ContentView.prototype.get_scrollableElements. But, some view state that's important to the user (namely, selection ranges in the timeline) are not implemented with DOM scrolling, so that view state is not handled. ContentViews should be able to

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2014-08-04 12:56:17 PDT

<rdar://problem/17905858>

Comment 2 Brian Burg 2014-08-04 12:56:40 PDT

.. provide custom save/restore functions. Importantly, these should not save into the BackForwardEntry's cookie, since that is for navigation state only.