Really useful tool for people doing web development

[Seth Cohn]

I've been using the WebDeveloper plugin for some time now (at least a
year I think), and it's great.  There are some other good tools
written as Firefox plugins.  I'm not on my dev box right now or I'd
make a list... Colorzilla, and a few of the source checkers/formatters
spring to mind right away.  While Webdeveloper does replace some of
these others, some are still worthing using as well...

Of course, the worst problem is still making things look right in IE,
like it or not.  Yes, there is a "beta" of a Microsoft developed
toolbar to do similar things as Webdeveloper.  Suffice it to say, I
agree it's not as good overall, but there are a few nifty
tricks/features I hope Chris clones in a future version, mostly in the
DOM browsing bits.

On 3/29/07, Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> wrote:
> I tend to do a lot of web development. Debugging can sometimes get
> really challenging, particularly when trying to figure out what the
> browser is actually doing behind the scenes. Trying to figure out why
> css isn't working right, what's really going on with complex table
> layout, how about that javascript that I just changed, the list goes on
> and on.
>
> I recently found a really slick developer's toolbar for firefox that is
> so immensely useful that I had to tell people about it.
>
> You can find the download for it (open source of course) here:
>
> http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
>
> It is an extension to Firefox. When installed and enabled it provides an
> additional toolbar that allows you to do all kinds of useful things.
> Examples are:
>
> - Cookie manipulation: examine cookies, disable them, set them
> - CSS: disable different styles, read the entire css for a page,
> interactively view the css for different page elements by pointing to
> them, edit css on the fly, add a css file on the fly
> - Forms: display form details, view form data, convert select tags to
> text, remove max length limits
> - Resize: you can resize the window to any size, zoom in and out
> - Validation: validate the css, html, rss, links, WAI, accessibility
> conformance
>
> And a whole lot more that I didn't feel like spending the next ten
> minutes typing up.
>
> This little gem just saved me from hours of tearing my hair out.
>
> While Microsoft does have a similar developer's toolbar for IE it has
> much less capability than this Firefox toolbar (and of course it doesn't
> work with Firefox!)
>
> Dan
>
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