Mezzoblue
9th Dec 2006, 01:29 am
All the stuff I said about Xylescope (http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2006/06/26/xyle_scope/) a while ago? Throw in Javascript debugging and live server editing, and you get a sense of what Firebug (http://www.getfirebug.com/) can do.
In the past two days since installing it, it's helped me track down a half-dozen CSS headaches and some DOM issues that were driving me crazy. It's getting a lot of buzz, but that appears entirely justified; Firebug may just be the web developer tool of the year (http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/firebug_10_web_developer_tool_of_the_year/).
Check out the screencast (http://soylentfoo.jnewland.com/articles/2006/12/08/firebug-10-screencast) for a better-than-text explanation of how you might use it. Great stuff, and definitely the prodding I needed to switch back to Firefox for development.
More... (http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2006/12/08/firebug/)
In the past two days since installing it, it's helped me track down a half-dozen CSS headaches and some DOM issues that were driving me crazy. It's getting a lot of buzz, but that appears entirely justified; Firebug may just be the web developer tool of the year (http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200612/firebug_10_web_developer_tool_of_the_year/).
Check out the screencast (http://soylentfoo.jnewland.com/articles/2006/12/08/firebug-10-screencast) for a better-than-text explanation of how you might use it. Great stuff, and definitely the prodding I needed to switch back to Firefox for development.
More... (http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2006/12/08/firebug/)