Bug 9633 – Documentation needed for the Web Inspector

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated)

[Gavin Sherlock]

Drosera looks like it has a lot of potential, but I haven't worked out how to do anything useful with it yet.  Documentation is sorely needed.

[Timothy Hatcher]

Here is a good example of documentation for Venkman.

http://www.svendtofte.com/code/learning_venkman/

[Timothy Hatcher]

Drosera no longer exists and a debugger has been added to the Web Inspector. We should keep this bug about adding documentation for the Web Inspector.

[Joseph Pecoraro]

This is the best documentation I've seen on how to use it from a user perspective:
http://webkit.org/blog/197/web-inspector-redesign/

The documentation that the webkit.org/blog/ links to... very vague:
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Web%20Inspector

This mentions some of the lower level items, but it says "proposed" and might not be what finally resulted (closest thing to a developer's interest):
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/ProposedWebInspectorRearchitecting

I would like something more substantial.

[Timothy Hatcher]

There is now also: http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Safari_Developer_Guide/UsingtheWebInspector/chapter_3_section_1.html

[Joseph Pecoraro]

Awesome Tim.  Thats much more official for the usability aspect.