Bug 30057

Summary: Web Inspector: Adding new attributes in Element Panel is counterintuitive
Product: WebKit Reporter: Pavel Feldman <pfeldman>
Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated)Assignee: Pavel Feldman <pfeldman>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: frenzied.cavy, joepeck, rik, ssoonh, timothy
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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[PATCH] Suggested fix timothy: review+

Description Pavel Feldman 2009-10-04 03:34:33 PDT 
Follow up to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21108:

> - I kept it a "..." but now everything else is out of the way so it will be easy to experiment with this.

It really looks confusing as is and I think we should revisit this. When I first saw "..." on hover, I thought it was a bug: I was sure that hovered text became longer, went out of bounds and CSS truncated it and added ellipsis to it.

Two thing bother me most:
1) Discoverability: There is no way user would understand that ellipsis is for adding new attributes
2) Stuff jumping: Elements panel contents is jumping when I move mouse around. Sometime I miss text nodes that I want to edit.

I'd suggest that we 
1) replace "..." with " ?="
2) toggle add attribute span using setTimeout(500).

Attaching screenshot and a patch shortly.
Comment 1 Pavel Feldman 2009-10-04 03:36:45 PDT 
Created attachment 40593 [details]
[IMAGE] Screenshot
Comment 2 Pavel Feldman 2009-10-04 03:41:47 PDT 
Created attachment 40594 [details]
[PATCH] Suggested fix
Comment 3 Timothy Hatcher 2009-10-09 13:14:19 PDT 
Comment on attachment 40594 [details]
[PATCH] Suggested fix

I'm not too fond of the look. But it does make it clear. I do like the hysteresis.

Maybe an icon would be better in the long run?
Comment 4 Pavel Feldman 2009-10-10 12:21:46 PDT 
Committing to http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk ...
	M	WebCore/ChangeLog
	M	WebCore/inspector/front-end/ElementsTreeOutline.js
Committed r49419
Comment 5 Jiayong Ou 2009-11-10 05:11:01 PST 
> Maybe an icon would be better in the long run?

An Icon would be much better. 

I just wanted to file a bug report on it since it looks like garbaged data…