RESOLVED INVALID 75366
Web Inspector: [Extensions API] Method to open inspector at extension panel 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75366
Summary Web Inspector: [Extensions API] Method to open inspector at extension panel
Steven Roussey
Reported 2011-12-29 12:55:56 PST
Created attachment 120766 [details] context menu example When you right click on an element there is an "Inspect Element" menu item to open the Inspector and bring you to that element in the Elements panel. Illumination does the same sort of thing, but tries to find the best match: ideally some sort of UI widget. But there doesn't seem to be a way to do this in Chrome, etc., like I can in Firefox/Firebug (see example context menu screenshot attached).
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2011-12-29 12:55 PST, Steven Roussey 		no flags
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Steven Roussey
Comment 1 2011-12-30 09:51:50 PST
I should be clear as to what's needed: an api to open the web inspector and switch to a desired panel (giving that panel information to focus on could be done in a callback when the main method is complete).
Pavel Feldman
Comment 2 2012-01-04 06:05:55 PST
This seems to be a platform-specific request, so it should start in crbug.com. In either case, we avoid opening the front-end programmatically for the following reasons: - It increases API surface that can be used by malicious sites / extensions - It increases the risk of the extensions API mis-use where a regular extension (say ad block) might use powerful inspector API via opening the front-end and installing a hook into the page. both scenarios are bad for the users.
Brian Burg
Comment 3 2014-12-12 14:36:16 PST
Closing as invalid, as this bug pertains to the old inspector UI and/or its tests. Please file a new bug (https://www.webkit.org/new-inspector-bug) if the bug/feature/issue is still relevant to WebKit trunk.
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