Hi Kara: I believe you've got the idea. I'm surprised to hear that your 1.3 version doesn't work as mine did. Do you have Firebug 1.3's window directly over the top of Firefox? Or do you have one on one monitor and the other on another monitor?
Serious question: when you click the Inspect button isn't your next action to click an element on the page in Firefox itself? Should you have to move/minimize Firebug on your own? 1.3 seemed to move itself out of the way (for me at least) ... 1.4 doesn't. Was curious if this was a bug, intentional or if something had gone haywire in my 1.3 installation that had actually provided a beneficial result. -Jay On Jul 17, 1:01 pm, Kara Rawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jay wrote: > > I don't know how to be any clearer. What part are you struggling with > > understanding? > > > In 1.3.x and down: > > > Hit the Inspect button ... Firebug cedes focus to the Firefox tab it's > > inspecting (it either blurs itself or calls focus on the Firefox tab > > it's inspecting [I'm guess the latter]) > > > In 1.4: > > > Hit the Inspect button ... The Firebug window stays exactly where it > > is ... it does nothing ... you have to minimize it to or move it to > > get it out of the way of the Firefox tab you want to inspect. > > > -Jay > > > On Jul 17, 11:36 am, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It would be helpful you can be very specific about what you mean by > >> "this behavior". > > >> jjb > > >> On Jul 16, 6:18 pm, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> When you hit the "Inspect" button in the Firebug window ... this was > >>> the way it functioned for me up until the 1.4 release. Now that I > >>> think about it, it was more like the Firefox tab that was about to be > >>> inspected regained focus... > > >>> Am I the only one who saw this behavior in the old version? > > >>> -Jay > > >>> On Jul 13, 10:49 am, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> I've not seen or heard of this "hide on inspect" behavior. Under what > >>>> conditions would the UI hide? > > >>>> jjb > > >>>> On Jul 13, 6:08 am, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>>> Why doesn't inspect hide/minimize the firebug window anymore? You used > >>>>> to be able to click the inspect button and it would then show you the > >>>>> current firefox tab. Now firebug just stares at you dumbly and you > >>>>> have to minimize it to get it out of the way. I assume this change was > >>>>> a request but can't we leave the original functionality in and have it > >>>>> as an option toggle? > > i have FB 1.3.3 and 1.4b7 and neither minimize the way you describe, > > what your saying is that when you click inspect you want it to minimize > FB so you can view the entire page? > > the feedback i get when click on inspect, it focus the html tab in FB > and highlights the dom section in relation to what dom object im > hovering overo n the page. > > i do think this would be a good option minimize on inspect, as there are > certain times where i would find this convient. > > kara --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
