| Summary: | Web Inspector: poor usability of a single-line Popover | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Alexander Pavlov (apavlov) <apavlov> |
| Component: | Web Inspector (Deprecated) | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | burg, bweinstein, joepeck, keishi, pfeldman, pmuellr, rik |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 116924 | ||
I can look at this, I have a version of the popover that works well as a single line. (In reply to comment #1) > I can look at this, I have a version of the popover that works well as a single > line. Bug description is misleading. Problem is that when user is moving mouse from evaluated expression to a popover, he needs to reach popover content in order to prevent popover from disappearing. Now in case of text, popover content is a span and it does not occupy entire popover area horizontally. As a result, user reaches what he thinks is a popover, but popover still disappears. Furthermore, guys here claim that popover border is not considered a part of popover... Right, the popover border is not considered a part of popover, since the shadow would be considered too. That could be fixed too with another positioned element used for hit testing. |
In a popover that contains a single line of text, the usable message area ("content") height is twice as smaller as the entire popover height (yellow area), which makes it extremely hard to mouse-over, in order to leave the popover visible until mouse-out. A user is also misled into thinking they are going to hit the popover, since the mouse pointer is rested over the yellow-colored area which visually pertains to the popover content, but in fact it is not.