July 14, 2004

Mozilla's Web Developer Extension

I'm pretty sure that everyone who cares about this extension knows about this extension. But in case you don't, Chris Pederick has developed an incredible tool for web developers, creatively named Web Developer 0.8. This extension, which can be loaded on either Firefox or Mozilla, adds a browser toolbar that will fulfill all your nerdy, developmental desires.

I've only played around with this since last night, but just a few of the handy things I've noticed include: viewing and editing CSS without having to load the CSS into an editor program; displaying class and id tags directly onto a page; outlining block level elements; and validating CSS and HTML with the click of a button.

It's enough to tempt me to switch from Safari to Firefox. At least for design.

Posted by kenji at July 14, 2004 09:52 AM

bp at July 14, 2004 02:51 PM

Wow, Web Developer Extension rocks! I agree - it would certainly get me to use Firefox for development and testing quite a bit earlier on. Maybe I'll even start doing half-decent CSS. :)

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