Firebug
Posted by Nils Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:27:00 GMT
Firebug is really an innovative and very useful tool if you do web development. For now I used it for 2 things:- Debugging AJAX and JavaScript: If you alter the pages HTML with js (eg you send back js from an AJAX request, which alters the html), the page source displayed by Firefox does not change. As a workaround, you can use the Firefox's DOM inspector and copy it from there. However with Firefox you can track and debug Ajax much more comfortable
- Editing Style Sheets: Editing CSS with a text editor and a browser can be quite painful, you have to edit it and then reload the site (and if you don't like it you have to do it again and again) Of course there are WSWYNG tools, but a good alternative is using Firebug. You can edit the css within the browser and see the result immedate. Also a cool feauture is that it displays the color of the RGB code if you move the mouse over it. So far I just miss an feature, which let's me save the edited css (and select all did also not work..)
