Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of ProposedWebInspectorRearchitecting

Timestamp:

Sep 17, 2008 11:02:31 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

Dimitri Glazkov

Comment:

added a bit of background description on current InspectorController communication.

ProposedWebInspectorRearchitecting

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 Inspected Page's JS
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+== What's There Now ==
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+Currently, communication between Inspector and !WebKit occurs via two JS objects:
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+ * `InspectorController`, created by !WebKit and populated with methods that JS invokes to talk to WebKit.
+ * `WebInspector`, created on the JS side and used by !WebKit to talk back to inspector. Only a small fraction of `WebInspector`'s methods is actually used for this.
+
+For instance, when the messages in the console are cleared by the user, the `InspectorController.clearMessages()` is invoked to reset the corresponding `m_consoleMessages` in !WebKit. Conversely, whenever !WebKit has a new message to display on the console, it creates a `ConsoleMessage` JS object and then invokes `WebInspector.addMessageToConsole()` with that object as an argument.
 
 = APIs to implement =