584371 - Provide a mechanism to extract stylesheet changes from inspector

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 583041

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

CSS modifications should be captured and easily extractable from the inspector for application to the developer's server/locally-stored stylesheets.

Comment 1

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

When you say "captured", do you mean just the changes which consist of the user poking at things through the inspector (sensible, given the use case you mention), or does it include any/all dynamic style modifications (e.g., from page script as well)?

Comment 2

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

These will be changes made manually to the stylesheets through the CSS editor we'll be implementing in bug 583041. I'm focusing specifically on stylesheets for the moment because it should be fairly easy to generate a diff-like log of those changes.

HTML changes will follow suit.

If you're looking specifically for changes that come through JS DOM manipulation, we're hoping the Console will provide some output showing those when the DOM listener stuff makes it in.

Comment 3

[Kevin Dangoor]

It's worth noting that bug 585563 suggests providing an alternate way of editing properties via the style panel.

Comment 4

[Kevin Dangoor]

The CSS editor provided in bug 583041 provides export functionality.