Comments on: Add Web Inspector button to Safari toolbar

By: Toby

Toby — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:23:42 +0000

@Ben — it’s ⌥⌘i

If you don’t have the Develop menu, so to Safari preferences, Advanced, and check “Show develop menu”.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:35:50 +0000

What is they keyboard shortcut to bring up the web inspector?

By: Duncan Beevers

Duncan Beevers — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:30:48 +0000

I typically use ⌥⌘C to bring up the Javascript console which gives you quick access to the various Web Inspector panes.

Thanks for proselytizing Safari 4 as a first-class development environment. Competition breeds innovation!

By: Mojito

Mojito — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:32:54 +0000

In Safari 4 on Windows XP, how do you change the size of a docked developer panel? When I hover over its header area, I see my cursor change to the up-and-down arrow, but when I attempt to click and drag, it does nothing.

I know that it’s possible to pop out the developer panel, but I really hate shuffling back and forth between two distinct windows.

By: Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:49:00 +0000

@Thomas: I think it mostly revolves about different work areas. Many developers do only backend programming, and due to the lack of any visual environment to navigate through the keyboard is often a much better choice.

On the other hand, lots of peeps are doing back- and frontend work (and/or tons of client-side scripting) and have to switch between visual and text-oriented contexts all the time.

Personally, I’m really bad at memorizing keyboard shortcuts, and constantly use the mouse even when editing source code. Good thing I do most server-side stuff in Ruby, which IMHO is better suited to a mixed keyboard/mouse input style than other more verbose languages.

On that note, I wonder if text editors could be friendlier about providing information about available keyboard shortcuts (e.g. if you do a certain operation “by mouse” all the time, it could tell you that there’s an easy way with this and that keyboard shortcut).

By: Thomas R. Koll

Thomas R. Koll — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:24:05 +0000

At uni I attended a course about user interfaces and was told that a normal user knows about a dozen shortcuts on the keyboard. It’s a hundert for me but I wonder how many other developers remeber that many.

Oh, and my newest addition is the hungarian keyboard layout, totally different.