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CLI to a Gecko desktop app runtime
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allow DevTools to be pinned to the browser window (bottom or right) #100

Open cvan opened 7 years ago

cvan commented 7 years ago

By default, Firefox opens the DevTools as a pane fixed to the bottom of the active browser window.

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You can also dock the DevTools to the side:

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And to the bottom again:

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Or detach the DevTools:

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And by default, qbrt opens the DevTools as a separate detached window:

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For comparison, Electron does by default open the DevTools to the right side of the browser window.

To do this with the qbrt, the shell would be need to maintain an <iframe> that's positioned to the bottom, where the DevTools pane would be embedded. Am I correct in understanding that?

mykmelez commented 7 years ago

For comparison, Electron does by default open the DevTools to the right side of the browser window.

Indeed! I didn't do this earlier for a couple of reasons: primarily, because the shell was originally implemented in HTML, which doesn't support in-window DevTools; and secondarily, because I based the implementation on the one in Positron in order to get it working quickly, and that implementation didn't support in-window DevTools.

To do this with the qbrt, the shell would be need to maintain an