Bug 151714 – When Debug UI is enabled, Inspecting the Inspector should always be available

• Status: NEW
• Component: Web Inspector

[Blaze Burg]

NOTES:

We currently require some extra steps to enable 2nd-level inspector. It's currently guarded by two different NSUserDefaults (http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebInspectorDebugging#InspectingtheInspector).

It has been proposed elsewhere that we add a separate DebugUI button for inspecting the inspector. I would like a shortcut too, Cmd-Shift-Opt-I (Cmd-Shift-Opt matches other DebugUI shortcuts).

[Blaze Burg]

Internally filed at <rdar://problem/12628083>

[Blaze Burg]

the "Inspect Element" context menu item is added inside WebCore code. It checks InspectorController::enabled(), which calls to developerExtrasEnabled(), which in the Web case, is tied to PageSettings::developerExtrasEnabled(). The second-level inspector has a separate page group.

To make 2nd-level inspector always available, we can always add the context menu in engineering builds only if the inspection level is >0.

[Blaze Burg]

(In reply to comment #2)
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> To make 2nd-level inspector always available, we can always add the context
> menu in engineering builds only if the inspection level is >0.

It would be even better if we can execute some injected script if inspectionLevel() > 0 to see if debug UI is enabled. 

We'd need to evaluate the following from InspectorController (in the context of the main frame's document).

!!(WebInspector && WebInspector.debugUIEnabled())

How can we evaluate something like this in the main frame's ExecState?