I’ve always relied heavily on the Safari web inspector. It’s indispensable for getting a clear view of what’s going on for both a page’s layout, and its CSS calculation process. I can’t imagine trying to do web work without it.
The great improvements in Safari 4 really help out:
- Mousing over an element in the inspector causes a translucent blue rectangle to cover the element, there are different shades of blue indicating border and padding. I love that.
- The inspector now docks in the bottom of the window by default. In general this is a better place for it.
- The sub panes are now resizable. In the old inspector you couldn’t make the css properties window wider, which would cut off the values at times.
- Viewing images now works correctly. There were lots of bugs in this before. And now you can drag an image out onto your desktop as you would expect.
It’s made me very happy. I’m sure there’s much more I’ll discover as I continue to work with Safari 4.
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