Summary: | Behaviour of contextual/right click menu items in Web Inspector | ||
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Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Matt Sephton <matt.sephton> |
Component: | Web Inspector (Deprecated) | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | Normal | CC: | adman.com, ben, keishi, pmuellr |
Priority: | P2 | ||
Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All |
Description
Matt Sephton
2009-07-01 05:22:58 PDT
While the "Inspect Element" bit is definitely confusing, it's the only obvious way I know of to allow you to debug the inspector. Since debugging the inspector is something very few people will ever need to do, we really should fix this - ie, remove the menu item. However, at the same time, we still need to provide a way to allow the inspector to be debugged, somehow. So, if it's decided that we need to fix the context menu and remove the "Inspect Element", let's arrange to open a new bug to provide a way to allow the inspector to be debugged. (In reply to comment #1) > So, if it's decided that we need to fix the context menu and remove the > "Inspect Element", let's arrange to open a new bug to provide a way to allow > the inspector to be debugged. Makes sense. The other items that do not currently work still need fixing, too. The context menu is the default one WebKit supplies. It really isn't intended to work, and needs replaced with real context menus specific to items in the Inspector. *** Bug 18147 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** My suggestion is to remove that menu altogether and implement a custom menu which is more powerful and actually improves features. See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29271 for the complete details of a suggested context-menu (I think that I probably should have posted the bug here rather than there but too late now...) This issue is no longer relevant to Safari 5, but other problems remain. See: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40818 Actually, some menu items that do not work are still present when you right click images or URIs in the CSS inspector Closing as invalid, as this bug pertains to the old inspector UI and/or its tests. Please file a new bug (https://www.webkit.org/new-inspector-bug) if the bug/feature/issue is still relevant to WebKit trunk. |