Bug 103274
| Summary: | Web Inspector: Audit-style messages should be somehow separated from the console. | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Mike West <mkwst> |
| Component: | Web Inspector (Deprecated) | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | apavlov, burg, caseq, glenn, keishi, loislo, ojan, pangle, paulirish, pfeldman, pmuellr, timothy, vsevik, web-inspector-bugs, yurys |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
Mike West
As we add more and more console messages to educate developers about errors on their pages, we run the risk of overwhelming them. Some examples include:
* incorrect MIME type errors
* Sandbox violations (see bug 103255 for discussion)
* CSS errors (see bug 19236 and (more recently) bug 102750 for discussion)
It would be nice if we were able to present these sorts of errors to developers in a way that encouraged understanding rather than a potentially ignored flood.
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Mike West
+ojan
One short-term change that might help pave the way for this is to mark the messages that we think would make sense to separate out. We could create a new message level, even lower than Tip, and surface a new checkbox on the bottom of the console to display them. It might even make sense not to display them by default. *shrug*
I don't think that's the right longer-term solution, but if there's interest I'll spin off a separate bug for an experiment in that direction.
Ojan Vafai
I don't have strong opinions on the implementation. I've just been very frustrated as a web developer when I miss JS exceptions in my code because they're hidden in a pile of console warnings that I can't hide.
Mike West
(In reply to comment #1)
> +ojan
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> One short-term change that might help pave the way for this is to mark the messages that we think would make sense to separate out. We could create a new message level, even lower than Tip, and surface a new checkbox on the bottom of the console to display them. It might even make sense not to display them by default. *shrug*
Looks like this was done in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103781.
caseq, yurys: What do you think about migrating other messages into the Debug level?
Brian Burg
This work is being revived in the form of different "Analyzer" instances in the current inspector. Tracked here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136515