557577 - make DOM inspector and firebug reflect :visited styles better

Status: NEW

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

After bug 147777 landed, DOM Inspector only reflects styles (selector matching, computed styles) as though all links are unvisited.

We should improve this; there are a bunch of options.

Computed styles are relatively straightforward if we want to fix them directly.

Selector matching is a little more complicated.

I think most of the changes would be in the hooks in layout/inspector (which I think both DOMI and Firebug use), although some might be in the DOMI and Firebug code itself.  This needs to be figured out.

Comment 1

[Michael Kohler [:mkohler]]

This is a mass change. Every comment has "assigned-to-new" in it.

I didn't look through the bugs, so I'm sorry if I change a bug which shouldn't be changed. But I guess these bugs are just bugs that were once assigned and people forgot to change the Status back when unassigning.

Comment 2

[Damon Sicore (:damons)]

Bumping this to beta2 per beta re-triage with dbaron.  If this should indeed block beta1, please re-nom.

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Moving to betaN, will need to be pulled into one of the beta milestones.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Probably the API for computed style involves two pieces:
 * what is the relevant link for this node?
 * what is the computed-style-if-visited for this node?

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
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