166749 - mode reverts to dom node when selecting #text and stays there

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, enhancement)

Description

[timeless]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/2002090408

steps:
1. inspect a document (eg attachment 97754 [details])
2. select css style rules
3. click #text
3' mode switches to dom node
4. select the root
4' expect mode to revert to css style rules

how we can do this:
the user's mode should be remembered until the user manually changes it.
when the user selects a node where that option is unavailable we select
something, perhaps always the first.  but unless they select another mode we can
remember their mode when they select another node which supports it.

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

chrome://inspector/content/inspector.xml#panel.setSubject

The switching of viewers is handled by this.switchViewer.  timeless, are you
suggesting we keep an array of node types which specify the last-remembered
viewer for each node type?

If so, it should be easy to do this.

Comment 2

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Per chatzilla, timeless agrees with me, so I'm going to take this bug.

Comment 3

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Reassigning DOM-I bugs which have stagnated in my buglist back to default owner.  Hopefully someone will pick up some of these bugs and work on them.  I'll continue to follow them.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk close. This component is no longer supported or maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499023

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk close. This component is no longer supported or maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499023