1204906 - It's really hard to see element highlighter tooltip twitching if element is constantly changing position

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Inspector, enhancement, P3)

Description

[arni2033]

Attachment: video - It's really hard to see inspector tooltip twitching when element is constantly changing position.webm

STR:   (Win7_64, Nightly 43, 32bit, ID 20150913030204, new profile, safe mode)
1. Open http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/mockups-interactive/spinner-test/spinner-01-svg.html (link from bug 605245)
2. Set zoom level -> 300% (maximum)
3. Right-click the spinner, click "Inspect Element"
4. Open sidebar in Inspector, select "Animation" tab in Inspector, click "1x" to open drop-down list, click "10x" to speed up the animation.
5. Hover mouse over the   div.spinner   element in markup-view

Result:       [watch video] Tooltip is twitching
Expectations: Tooltip shouldn't twitch so bad

Leaving it Unconfirmed because this issue really looks like request. Maybe it could be fixed by making tooltip smoothly move to a new position.

Comment 2

[arni2033]

They could be real duplicates, but 1204899 could be easily solved by making digits monospace and always
displaying exactly 6 digits of height/width (or at least moving dimentions to the end of the tooltip)
While this bug implies slightly more difficult & questionable changes (is floating tooltip good from designer's point of view?) and looks like it's "too much of an enhancement". So I filed 2 bugs

Comment 3

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Inspector bug triage. Filter on CLIMBING SHOES.