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Originally Posted by AndyWiltshireNZ
Sounds good brad, what would you say are the benefits of Firebug over the WebDev tool?
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At work we've been doing landing pages and mini-sites lately. The designer gives me pretty elaborate photoshop files that I have to then get working as Drupal webpages for which we don't have a previous design (aka theme) to go off of. I usually end up with decent sized CSS files that are 600-1500 lines long in order to get an exact duplicate of her design.
The ability to right click anywhere on the page, select inspect element, and then modify the CSS on the fly is a huge timesaver for me. Maybe that feature is in the web developer toolbar also but I haven't found it.
I do use the webmaster toolbar too though. I like the browser resize feature and the turn off images feature. We recently started an e-mail marketing campaign and being able to see what the HTML e-mail looked like without images was helpful (although, not to brag but it looked great without images too). And I also use it to highlight page elements if a design isn't working the way I want it to.
But I guess since most of my time lately is working on the CSS, firebug is the better choice for me.