Bug 147774 – Web Inspector: Modify Styles sidebar navigation item to show select popover on hover

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WONTFIX
• Component: Web Inspector

[Devin Rousso]

It's pretty annoying to have to click twice to change style sidebar panels, so instead of requiring a click to open the select element, have it automatically open on hover.

[Devin Rousso]

Created attachment 258468 [details]
Patch

[Devin Rousso]

Created attachment 258469 [details]
[Proposed] After Patch is applied

[Timothy Hatcher]

I worry that if you try to mouse from Node to Layers in a straight line over Styles you won't be able to click on Layers. You will likely hit the Styles popup menu item which covers Layers.

Maybe a slight delay for the hover? But at that point, it still slows you down or makes you click on Styles to get the popup faster.

[Devin Rousso]

Created attachment 258514 [details]
Applied patch with 200ms Timeout

This actually isn't too bad.  It could use some fine tuning, but it works much better than I was expecting.

[Timothy Hatcher]

That looks better to me.

[Nikita Vasilyev]

I don't like showing any navigation menus on hover. I don't recall it being used on OS X either.

(In reply to comment #0)
> It's pretty annoying to have to click twice to change style sidebar panels,
> so instead of requiring a click to open the select element, have it
> automatically open on hover.

You can select a different item by clicking and holding, which is technically only one click.
https://cloudup.com/ciadDyu73CY

[Blaze Burg]

Comment on attachment 258468 [details]
Patch

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=258468&action=review

> Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/Views/ScopeRadioButtonNavigationItem.js:87
> +        var from = event.fromElement || event.relatedTarget;

let

[Timothy Hatcher]

Yeah, I have concerns about it matching anything else on the system.

[Timothy Hatcher]

Comment on attachment 258468 [details]
Patch

r- for now. We should live with wha the have for a bit longer. We might need something different altogether.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

<rdar://problem/28228731>

[Blaze Burg]

Should this be marked WONTFIX? I haven't heard anyone complain about it. Also it would be hard to make this accessible.