[Laszlo-dev] must we restrict the debugger width to the canvas width?

[Sarah Allen]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 2:10 PM, P T Withington wrote:

> Interesting.  I didn't know you could do that.
>
> Here's my concern:  If a naive user (like myself) says:
>
> <canvas width="100">
>  <debug width="200">
>  ...
> </canvas>
>
> and you make your change, won't I end up with a debugger window  
> where I can't get to the resize tab so I can't make it fit on my  
> window?

then you hit your forehand with your hand and say "oops" (or drag the  
debugger to the left until you can resize it)
>
>
> There's a boatload of heuristics going on here to make the debugger  
> window size as useful as possible, and I'd want to make sure we  
> didn't break any of those.  In particular, look at the history of  
> this bug for an example of how dangerous what looks like a simple  
> change can be:
>
> http://jira.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7602
>
> So, I'm pretty leery of your proposed change.

If you think it is dangerous. I can live with it changed locally, I  
just thought others might want it.
> -
>
> Why can't you just have the canvas be 100% and then set the actual  
> size using the embed tag?

My app reacts to the canvas size and gets all warped that way

Sarah