Comments on: New Safari / WebKit Inspector

By: MikeHarris

MikeHarris — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:52:20 +0000

Can anybody give me any pointers on how to get this running on Windows please? I’ve been Googling it for about an hour now and got nowhere. I’ve downloaded the latest nightly zip but it doesn’t have an installer … or a user guide … or even a readme. I’ve tried running all the exe and bat files but none of them seem to do anything. Its all very frustrating – this looks like such a great tool but I have a feeling someone doesn’t want us none Mac folk using it :D

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:01:03 +0000

Yeah, i wish everyone would just go back to styling things like windows 98, that would be a great step forward…

By: Leland Scott

Leland Scott — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:02:55 +0000

Yeah, reflections are almost as bad as those icky gradiant effects you see everywhere these days. I’m sure they’ll all be gone soon. While you’re at it, please get rid of rounded corners and drop shadows! Geez.
;-)

By: Justin L

Justin L — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:14:49 +0000

Hmm, to critisize the design I agree with jamie – It’a a bit too cuddly for data display, and there’s bound to be a backlash soon to the reflective effect , it’s done to death

By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:20:35 +0000

It is cuter than Firebug in some ways, but it has many fewer features… (in-place editing, XHR spying, showing rulers when inspecting css…)

It also feels strangely cumbersome to work with — I think the devs need to take the reigns back from the designers bit while they all enter the “tweaking” phase of this thing.

Great work here, but perhaps a bit too cute for its good?

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:49:19 +0000

Get NightShift, which automates the downloading of nightlies :)

It’s for mac @ http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27294

By: nea

nea — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:58:24 +0000

> I am kinda getting sick of these reflection effects.

Haha, couldn’t agree more. I loved how on the leopard presentation on apple.com the lector mentions that your windows reflect in the dock bar or however it’s called, damn, that’s like the most useful feature I’d want from an OS :).

By: Mike Owens

Mike Owens — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:10:44 +0000

Wow, this will make developing for Safari a lot easier. I can’t imagine doing primary web development without Firebug anymore, and this is a step in the right direction.

I’m not able to play with this today (Ubuntu laptop), but if it ends up being code-compatible with Firebug (console.*, inspect(element), profile, etc), it’ll ease the context-switch of JS/DOM debugging on multiple browsers.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:09:07 +0000

These apps to automate the download/updating of the nightly Webkit builds are already available on the Mac. I guess that for Windows it’s a question of time.

By: Bono

Bono — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:04:29 +0000

I am kinda getting sick of these reflection effects.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:46:59 +0000

This is great news especially that now the nightlies are also available on Windows.

Now, what are those third-party applications supported? Surely not IE.

By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:45:00 +0000

The web inspector works quite well on Windows (yes, nightly Webkit builds are available for Windows now too).

Off topic: I wish someone would write an app to automate the download/updating of the nightly Webkit builds. (so it would be as easy as Firefox’s nightly updates).

By: Adam Sanderson

Adam Sanderson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:17:57 +0000

I have to say that it’s really slick. Some parts aren’t there yet, but it’s looking good so far.

By: Ryan Breen

Ryan Breen — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:12:18 +0000

As someone who spends every day looking at waterfall views like the image above, I bow to a group that can make the data look so damn sexy. Oh Apple, how I love thee.

It’s great to see browser developers also building such compelling tools for the development community.