OmniWeb's inspection kit isn't fully functional yet - the search tool
(great idea) doesn't work yet, and the same goes for the metrics and
properties tabs. However the style viewer is incredibly useful.
It specifies that it is a 'computed style' viewer - an interesting
distinction. Gecko happens to be so compliant that such a thing is
incredibly rarely useful, and as such its own inspector is great in that
it only displays 'read' code.
IE has a bastardisation of the two: its inspector reflects the fact that
in many cases it digests code and then converts it into 'behaviours',
and you often end up with expressions similar in syntax to the notorious
hasLayout property.
As far as I can see though, WebKit displays what appears to be _every
possible relevant property_ along with their values... Very useful for
the purposes of allocating bugs. I notice what appears to be
WebKit-specific code... Things like
-khtml-text-decorations-in-effect
...Which I have seen in effect - proprietary and usually only used in
Apple sites since it is naturally not w3 css. There are also more
intriguing rules like
-khtml-line-break
Oddly enough, a right click allows WebKit to search for the clicked term
as a Google string - useful enough as Google finds _nothing_. I would
love to play around with these, but apparently they are completely
undocumented in the public arena (aka the internet)!
Regarding my original bug which prompted all this, it reads (by the
inspector) as if it shouldn't be (unless, of course, the -khtml comments
mean something significant). I may, heaven forbid, resort to hacking
Safari to give it uglier specification for the element in question. I
seem to remember there is a weird selection method involving seemingly
banal child-of-parent-of-child-of etc. specification.
Regards,
Barney
@Mike re:Apple:
You're right. It is still a little obscure, isn't it?
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