Useful tools for web development/debugging?
I'm always on the lookout for new, useful tools, and was wondering what tools people find useful for Javascript/PHP/CSS debugging/development (or tools in general).
Here are some that I'm using quite a bit:
- ColorPic (eyedropper for getting exact color values of anything onscreen)
- ScreenCalipers 1.0 (for measuring anything onscreen)
- Firefox Web Developer Extension (for altering CSS live)
- Firebug (inspecting HTML/CSS of any element; interacting with the page live via Javascript)
- Microsoft Script Debugger (highlight line causing Javascript errors; can be better than Firebug as it shows eval'd source where Firebug incorrectly points to dojo.js)
- jslint.org (find errors in Javascript source)
- SnagIt (screen captures with graphical annotations - useful for bug reports)
- Safari Execute Arbitrary Script bookmarklet (interact with the page live via Javascript)
- IE Javascript Shell bookmarklet (interact with the page live via Javascript)
What other super-useful tools do you use?
posted by Jonathan at
6/11/2006 10:06:00 a.m.
15 Comments:
I find DevBoi to be useful for finding documentation.
-Matt
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Anonymous, at 6/11/2006 10:34 a.m.
Trying it out - thanks Matt!
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Jonathan, at 6/11/2006 11:31 a.m.
Thanks for sharing the tools, Buddy!! I will check them out soon. Take care!! Ciao!!
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Anonymous, at 6/12/2006 9:42 p.m.
I like gotAPI.com
to browse assorted web reference documentation.
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Anonymous, at 6/13/2006 10:28 a.m.
Yeap, I'm also using gotAPI.com.
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Anonymous, at 6/15/2006 9:07 a.m.
ricky - you're most welcome!
gotApi.com is great - I'm using it for the javascript reference.
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Jonathan, at 6/15/2006 9:04 p.m.
http://www.joomla.org/
just recently stumbled upon this,
very curious.
Perhaps a very usefull tool-set for developing Form-fillable (XML schema) files.
would be nice to see the BC Gov. impliment something browser based for file submission.
la la la....
Mars
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Mars, at 6/18/2006 3:01 p.m.
Hi Mars - I've heard great things about Joomla, and how it is super-easy to use. I must check it out sometime.
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Jonathan, at 6/20/2006 1:59 a.m.
Along with ColorPic, there is a ColorZilla extension for Mozilla browsers and a MeasureIt extension that is quite useful as well.
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Anonymous, at 7/03/2006 1:06 a.m.
Jake--nice ones!
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Jonathan, at 7/03/2006 12:18 p.m.
Have you tried Krugle? It's amazing!
Krugle
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rickdog, at 9/13/2006 1:40 a.m.
try loading this in your sidebar:
http://quickref.org/
and this:
http://lachy.id.au/dev/mozilla/sidebar/sidebar.xul
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rickdog, at 9/13/2006 1:46 a.m.
Checking out krugle now
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Jonathan, at 9/13/2006 11:44 p.m.
I'm also fun of using some of the Firefox extensions for web development.
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Creative Times, at 10/04/2006 4:48 a.m.
CreativeTimes--right on.
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Jonathan, at 10/04/2006 9:32 p.m.
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