[Merge] lp:~abreu-alexandre/webbrowser-app/devtools-support into lp:webbrowser-app

[Alexandre Abreu]

> > When doing this I basically had 2 use cases in mind:
> >
> > - the webbrowser-app/webapp-container being launched in a debug mode,
> >
> > - an application (third party) using the ubuntu webview and one wanting to
> > "black box" debug it w/o having to touch it (either because one cannot or
> > should not). I was thinking mostly QA needs to AP test UI componenets that
> use
> > the UbuntuWebView w/o having to touch it. They would need a way to turn on
> the
> > devtools w/o having access to the app itself, before being able to drive it
> w/
> > selenium etc.
> >
> > In that context, some sort of an env var seemed ok to me,
> 
> I guess that makes sense. One thing I just noticed is that oxide allows us to
> specify only a numerical port, no host. I guess it means we cannot connect to
> a webview running on a different device? With QtWebKit, we were able to
> connect to a webview running on a phone from a separate desktop machine.

Yes, this is a shortcoming in oxide that I'll address w/ a MR there,

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