X-Ray

[charlesroper]

Has anyone seen the x-ray features of WesCiv StyleMaster or Macrabbit CSSEdit? If you haven't, think Firebug, but built into the application. Very, very handy.

Are there any plans to integrate such a feature into WeBuilder? Firebug-style inspection and debugging would, in my humble opinion, make WeBuilder utterly indispensable and would blow every other competing product right out of the water.

Cheers,

Charles

[peep]

Has anyone seen the x-ray features of WesCiv StyleMaster or Macrabbit CSSEdit? If you haven't, think Firebug, but built into the application. Very, very handy.

Are there any plans to integrate such a feature into WeBuilder? Firebug-style inspection and debugging would, in my humble opinion, make WeBuilder utterly indispensable and would blow every other competing product right out of the water.

Cheers,

Charles

I'd prefer if I could inspect a page and click on elements to point out which part of the PHP code created that stuff Impossible? Probably...

[erikh]

I'll second that for webuilder...I LOVE the xray feature in StyleMaster, wish we could have that here.

[Karlis]

In the version 2007 we hope to include basic XRay that allows you to click on any element in the HTML page and see what styles are applied to that element.

[charlesroper]

That's GREAT news - thanks Karlis!

[syrupcore]

It would be handy but sounds like a lot overhead for something that's largely available in firebug. firebug shows you the relevant css line number so it's pretty easy to go do your edits after experimenting.

of course, I'm the guy who is anti preview-in-editor so I have a skewed opinion.

[charlesroper]

I'd be happy with Firebug integration. That is, use Fb to inspect elements but have an option to jump to the code in WeBuilder. A way of being able to persist changes made in Fb would also be useful.

[syrupcore]

YES! A webuilder firefox plugin that integrates with firebug would be a 10-ton dream.

[syrupcore]

check out Aptana for some idea of how the IDE and firebug are being integrated. It's integrating jQuery too. Too bad it's eclipse based. java bloat.

[Brian Taylor]

I was checking out the X-RAY feature and it is really cool. One thing I did notice is that you can't X-RAY links it just jumps to the new page when you click on the link. Is there a way that you could X-RAY items with hover instead of click? I see that some people asked for the onclick but I think the hover works better because you could x-ray links and not have to be clicking all over the place looking for different items. With the hover you could just move your mouse around as the different parts x-ray. Then when you click on it could stay highlighted. I love the X-RAY feature it is a great addition to the editor.

Thanks,
Brian

[Karlis]

We shall improve this feature in the future. There are currently technical problems with links, but we shall fix this.