Hello Greg and list,
Thanks for that good outline of functions in the Develop menu.
Dan
On Mar 19, 2008, at 8:13 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
Let me walk through the options in eh Develop Menu one by one:
Open page With
This is a submenu listing all the applications capable of opening a
web page that are installed on your system. Some are surprising like
RealPlayer and so on. Choose it and the current page is opened in
that application.
User Agent
Another submenu let's you fool websites into believing they are
talking to some other kind of web browser and computer other than
Safari and a Mac. Useful for those dopes who write code into their
websites to only work with Internet Explorer on Windows. Pick the
kind of system you want to pretended to be a load the page. The
server at the other end has no way of knowing that your really on a
Mac.
Web Inspector
Rather like view source only on steroids. You can view the code
either as a text file or in it's DOM structure. Also look at all the
imported style sheets, images and script files. Rather like a
dissembler for web pages. See exactly what was downloaded to your
computer and how it all works. Web developer are both going to love
and hate this.
Show Error Console
Brings up the Web inspector but brings you to any script errors.
Show Network Timeline
Shows a graph of all the various files making up the page and how
long each took to load. Helps you find files that are slowing things
down.
Snippet Editor
I have not figured this out yet, seems to to be some sort of
realtime HTML/JavaScript editor Type in HTML code and the bottom of
the windows shows the result.
The Disabled options. These are fairly clear selecting them turn off
the option, for example it will not use any caches which can
sometimes cause problems, you can turn off pictures or script or the
timer that stops a run away javaScript form executing forever.
Hope this helps.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Mar 19, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Jane Jordan (Gmail) wrote:
I found the menu, but what do the options on it mean? Open page
with *seems* to be self-explanatory,and likewise the user agents--
but the rest?
Jane
On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hello,
Safari has a new feature called, Develop Menu. According to the
help information, it's supposed to be used to develop web pages.
You can find the check box for this under Advanced Preferences.
Dan
