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Future of the DOM Inspector

Thursday April 10th, 2003

Alex Vincent writes: "The new Mozilla roadmap mentions Inspector integrating with Phoenix sometime after 1.4. I'm working on a number of significant improvements to Inspector which land in the same time-frame. I posted a summary to my weblog."

#1 Great News

by asa

Friday April 11th, 2003 10:40 AM

This is great news. Dom Inspector is one of the most important tools for XUL app and Web development. I'm happy to see some of these older issues being worked on. I don't do much more than simple Web design so it's pretty much good enough for me but I'm sure others will really appreciate the changes.

--Asa

#2 Little wishes

by Tar

Saturday April 12th, 2003 7:31 AM

Two things I miss from DOM Inspector:

1) Alt+D / Ctrl+L to address bar

2) That the right "Object" panel to remember it's last selected view after close (I usually use only "Computed Style" and would like it to be opened by default)

#5 Re: Little wishes

by kb7iuj

Saturday April 12th, 2003 7:46 PM

File enhancement-severity bugs for these if you want them.

Alex

#3 New UI?

by Malc

Saturday April 12th, 2003 11:08 AM

I think the DOM inspector is fantastic.... but I find the UI makes it hard to use. By the time I've expanded the nodeNames enough to see the elements I'm interested in, I have to make the DOM Inspector/Sidebar so wide that I can't see much of the web page!

#4 Re: New UI?

by cdn

Saturday April 12th, 2003 11:33 AM

you could use Ctrl-Shift-I from the page in question and use the main DOM Inspector UI ?