Comments on: Essential web development tools for Firefox

by: Gareth J M Saunders

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:00:17 +0000

Great find Matt — I love that WestCiv X-ray bookmarklet.

Gareth

by: Matt Bee Online Blog

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:34:14 +0000

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by: Matt Bee

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:10:16 +0000

Spot on. Exactly the tools I would have said. I also use something for color matching, the color picker add on which creates a photoshop pallette of colors used on any web page at the touch of a button. Great stuff.

This excellent bookmarklet I found last week may be of interest to you - helps me a LOT when checking out IE issues:

http://westciv.com/xray/index.html

Once you can get the bookmark saved properly on IE (took me a little while!) it’s a great way to find and solve box model, double float margin and many other IE5.5/6 bugs.

by: Gareth J M Saunders

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:23:37 +0000

Hi Mike, thanks for the link to Joe Hewitt’s demo at Yahoo! I’ve downloaded the MP4 file and will watch it later.

I did put them in order — I currently use the Web Developer Toolbar most often, but I use Firebug for longer, if that distinction is clear.

I’m looking forward to learning more about Firebug from the video, though.

I tried out Colorzilla but it wasn’t doing anything that my other colour tools didn’t do, so I uninstalled it to save Firefox resources.

Does anyone else have any favourite development tools?

by: Mike Nolan

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:34:06 +0000

I don’t know if you intended to put them in an order, but personally I use Firebug far more often than Web Developer Toolbar now. Theres a video on YUI Theater [sic] where Joe Hewitt explains some of the features - I learnt a lot watching it!

The other tool I use quite often, and wonder how I ever managed without it is Colorzilla which offers a very simple colour picker from anywhere on a webpage. It can even copy the hex code to the clipboard for you.