>Anyway, if I understand correctly, the status bar would be just >a static bar with textual legend, correct?
absolutely. have a look at the screenshot i posted with the last message (at the very bottom). >> IMO: The tooltip would only make sense in case there would be more >> information to the current element which need to be shown >I am not sure if I understand this.. I can't think of a way, how we could render the tooltip to help the user for this particular issue.. Am Montag, 20. August 2012 16:02:36 UTC+2 schrieb Jan Honza Odvarko: > > On Aug 20, 3:52 pm, Markus Staab <[email protected]> wrote: > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Z5Pje_cTyc8/UDJAqefaxHI/AAAAAAAAAB...> > > > enclosed you will find a mockup how the statusbar like solution could > look > > like. > > > > a "better" tooltip would also be an option (because there is not tooltip > > ATM) ;-), > There are tooltips, but not for all values (try e.g. document or > window and > you should see URL) > > > but i guess a statusbar would be easier to implement > Tooltips (infotips) have great support in the internal Firebug > architecture so, it should be relatively simple to do even more > complicated > (not only textual) tooltips. > > Anyway, if I understand correctly, the status bar would be just > a static bar with textual legend, correct? > > > and the user will not > > be overwhelmed with all those tooltips which appear on nearly every > element > > inside the view. > Yep, I see the point, this could be a problem. > > > IMO: The tooltip would only make sense in case there would be more > > information to the current element which need to be shown > I am not sure if I understand this.. > > Honza > > > > > Am Montag, 20. August 2012 15:42:36 UTC+2 schrieb Jan Honza Odvarko: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 20, 3:36 pm, Markus Staab <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think it has to be built into firebug (maybe with an option to > hide, > > > but > > > > i am not sure about that). > > > > when just putting it into the docs a lot of people won't fit it... > > > Yep, agree. > > > > > > maybe it would be sufficient to have something like a statusbar at > the > > > > bottom with a short description > > > What would be displayed in the status-bar? > > > Can you provide some examples? > > > What about having better tooltip? > > > > > Honza > > > > > > Am Montag, 20. August 2012 15:33:32 UTC+2 schrieb Jan Honza Odvarko: > > > > > > > Do you think the legend should be built in Firebug (like e.g. the > > > > > 'help' command > > > > > in the Console panel) or just available as a doc on > getfirebug.com/ > > > > > wiki? > > > > > > > Honz > > > > > > > On Aug 20, 3:18 pm, Markus Staab <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > the DOM panel uses a lot of different colors to render all those > > > > > objects, > > > > > > functions, attributes etc. > > > > > > > > there are a lot of them and unfortunately it is not transparent > to > > > the > > > > > > users which color has which intention. > > > > > > So it would be very helpfull to have something like a legend, > which > > > > > shows > > > > > > what all those colors mean. > > > > > > > > dom.png > > > > > > 59KViewDownload > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebug
