Bug 147928 – Web Inspector: Console split view should take the whole width of the Inspector

• Status: NEW
• Component: Web Inspector

[Nikita Vasilyev]

Created attachment 258812 [details]
[Image] Tiny console prompt

A feedback from https://twitter.com/glenmaddern. He often uses Web Inspector docked to right.

The console prompt becomes too narrow when sidebars are expanded.

It also feels like the split console is a subview of the content view, the one in the middle, but it's not. It's a thing on its own, and it should span all the way from left to right.

[Timothy Hatcher]

I have concern with doing this when docked to the bottom. It is also visually weird to have a white bar all the way across the bottom, and footers in the sidebars sitting on top of it and not at the bottom of the Inspector.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/22281737>

[Joseph Pecoraro]

Should we start having custom layout when docked to right?

[Tobias Reiss]

I often use Web Inspector docked to right. Therefore I close the sidebars when possible. At least one of the them. That way I often hide essential tools/infos unfortunately [1].

A solution to the problem could be to make one of the sidebars optional without breaking a developers workflow.

Example: Debugger Tab
The left sidebar could only contain resources. As soon as you picked a file, the sidebar can be closed.

In Chrome "Cmd+p" opens a search-field where I can search for a specific file. That way I don't even need to open the sidebar most of the times.

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144742

[Timothy Hatcher]

Yes, we could consider overlay sidebars as an option.