Hi folks, I have tweeted today that:
> Thinking that forking webkit #webinspector and porting it 2 a #Firefox > extension is a very good idea. I just can't > use #firebug any more!! I immediately got some replies probably it sounded to offensive to firebug and it really was not my intention. I actually preferred Firebug a lot before I started with a webkit related project last year. After actively using it for a year I indeed find many things very annoying in firebug most of them are UX related btw. I think are some things that web-inspector does better job then firebug and I will be a good citizen and will fill a bug reports for them. Here is the list: - In webkit command line presents on every tab and it's very convenient specially in scenarios where you are inspecting some code. Let's say you are on break-point and want to evaluate some js code to digg into some objects in webkit you just type it while in Firebug you have to switch to console tab type it (if you still remember what exactly if not switch back) then go back. At least in my case that's most of the time is scenario - Multiline js evaluation in webinspector is such a seamless experience if you paste something your cmd is just grows a bit bigger and enter still evals your code. While in firebug pasting multiline snippet will make cmdline fold to the left and enter won't eval it anymore which forces you to switch to differnt mode. - in webinspector you dumped object can be inspect in place by unfolding them, while Firebug will switch you to a different tab again without cmdline forceing you to switch working mode - source URL's for evaled code works very rarely (with the same code sometimes it does sometimes it's not), for me and bunch of people I know, maybe it's just us... - Things like code highlighting (I know about firerainbow which blocks my firefox whenever you open a sourse with a lot of lines), code completion are extremely useful! I don't know if there was any UX involved in designing webinspector UI, but overall I think user experience is much better. Actually I can see a lot of value in merging those two projects since more people will be improving things better the tooling will get, besides most of it is js. -- 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.
