Bug 14254 - Inspector node highlight applied to all tabs on OS X
Summary: Inspector node highlight applied to all tabs on OS X
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated) (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.5
: P2 Major
Assignee: Nobody
URL:
Keywords: InRadar, PlatformOnly
: 14277 15723 16405 17630 26796 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 14328 17777
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Reported: 2007-06-20 19:45 PDT by Matt Lilek
Modified: 2014-01-12 10:51 PST (History)
10 users (show)

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Patch + ChangeLog to fix the issue on Windows (4.72 KB, patch)
2008-03-09 11:43 PDT, Adam Roben (:aroben) 		no flags Details | Formatted Diff | Diff
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Description Matt Lilek 2007-06-20 19:45:40 PDT 
When a node is highlighted in the new web inspector, the highlight is applied to all tabs in that window.
Comment 1 Matt Lilek 2007-06-21 09:36:02 PDT 
*** Bug 14277 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Matt Lilek 2007-10-27 08:02:50 PDT 
*** Bug 15723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Timothy Hatcher 2007-12-20 16:31:34 PST 
*** Bug 16405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Timothy Hatcher 2007-12-20 16:31:57 PST 
Bug 16405 has more details on the badness this can cause.
Comment 5 Adam Roben (:aroben) 2008-01-28 16:09:08 PST 
<rdar://problem/5322306>
Comment 6 Matt Lilek 2008-03-01 16:40:20 PST 
*** Bug 17630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Adam Roben (:aroben) 2008-03-09 11:43:16 PDT 
Created attachment 19617 [details]
Patch + ChangeLog to fix the issue on Windows
Comment 8 Anders Carlsson 2008-03-09 15:46:19 PDT 
Comment on attachment 19617 [details]
Patch + ChangeLog to fix the issue on Windows

r=me
Comment 9 Anders Carlsson 2008-03-09 15:49:12 PDT 
Comment on attachment 19617 [details]
Patch + ChangeLog to fix the issue on Windows

r=me
Comment 10 Adam Roben (:aroben) 2008-03-09 16:02:19 PDT 
Comment on attachment 19617 [details]
Patch + ChangeLog to fix the issue on Windows

Landed as r30910
Comment 11 Matt Lilek 2008-03-11 10:17:38 PDT 
(In reply to comment #10)
> (From update of attachment 19617 [details] [edit])
> Landed as r30910
> 

r30910 was for Windows - this still affects OS X. Updating it to reflect this.
Comment 12 Anthony Ricaud 2008-04-18 07:43:21 PDT 
This bug is really annoying for web developers.

If you're working on a bug and switching to any webpage to look a documentation, you have to quit the inspector every time.
Comment 13 Anthony Ricaud 2008-10-15 17:06:13 PDT 
Since last changes in behaviour (timeout for highlighting), this bug seems irrelevant now.
Comment 14 Dylan 2008-10-15 17:55:06 PDT 
(In reply to comment #13)
> Since last changes in behaviour (timeout for highlighting), this bug seems
> irrelevant now.
> 

It isn't actually fixed, though. It is certainly well hidden, but the issue still remains.

New steps to reproduce:
1) Open 2 tabs in a WebKit window.
2) Inspect element in one of them, and mouse-over a node to highlight it
3) Right-click/control-click  the node you are mousing over, displaying a context menu
4) Select "Copy" (or any other option in the list) from this context menu
5) Click the WebKit window to bring it to the front
6) Change tabs
Highlight still present.

So, hidden? Yes. Fixed? No. It is fine as is since it is much less annoying, but since the problem is still there it might crop up later if the behavior ever changes again, or in any other places that the timer can be circumvented.
Comment 15 Timothy Hatcher 2009-10-29 19:48:28 PDT 
*** Bug 26796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Blaze Burg 2014-01-12 10:51:00 PST 
Can't reproduce this. I think the highlights use a different implementation now (InspectorOverlay) which is specific to the Page, not the viewport.