| Summary: | Web Inspector: Make Web Inspector open undocked by default | ||||||||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck> | ||||||
| Component: | Web Inspector | Assignee: | Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck> | ||||||
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||||||||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | bburg, inspector-bugzilla-changes, joepeck, mjs, nvasilyev, webkit-bug-importer | ||||||
| Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | InRadar | ||||||
| Version: | WebKit Nightly Build | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | All | ||||||||
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Description
Joseph Pecoraro
2017-10-16 11:50:26 PDT
Created attachment 323921 [details]
[IMAGE] Default Undocked Size
Created attachment 323922 [details]
[PATCH] Proposed Fix
I'm not convinced undocked mode gives a better experience. I mostly use Web Inspector docked. I think we need to poll a sizable number of people before making a change like this. I also think we need to do some consideration before we make this change. Also side-docked is another possible default besides not-docked. Highly unscientific poll here: https://twitter.com/brrian/status/920004717211656193 Personally, I think Dock to Bottom is useless for 90% of the features in Web Inspector. But maybe everyone uses the other 10%? We have not put any effort into using alternate (smaller) layout when docked to bottom or side. Comment on attachment 323922 [details]
[PATCH] Proposed Fix
It does seem like many users use it docked based on other polls. Maybe we should spend some time to improve our docked UI.
https://twitter.com/brrian/status/920004717211656193 currently shows "Docked to side" the most common option. It came to me as a surprise. Based on this, I think making the split console take the full width was the right move. We should continue making Web Inspector more useful when it's narrow. |