For Web Developer Eyes only...

[AndyWiltshireNZ]

If you design and build sites, then you will find this plugin extremely useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

* Web Development: Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

It is extremely useful while you are developing your sites to check for issues or compatibility etc...

Works in Flock 2.0, I am sure it works in flock 1.2.1 as well...

[nextday]

Andy, how would you compare this with the very Excellent firebug extension ?

[AndyWiltshireNZ]

Pretty much apples and oranges. Firebug is geared primarily towards debugging which it does a fine job of, where as Web Devloper provides a whole range of tools including debugging. I find it a little bit more user friendly overall, but it would come down to personal taste, they are both free, so try them and see which you prefer.

Here's the Web Developer Plugin homepage: Web Developer

[micronet]

Cool find Andy, Thanks for the link

[BradleyT2p2]

I use FireBug way more than I use the web developer toolbar. I've been an employed web developer for 5 years now.

[AndyWiltshireNZ]

Sounds good brad, what would you say are the benefits of Firebug over the WebDev tool?

[DerR]

Thanks for sharing! Didn't know of that one yet.

Also, check out:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/697
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/655

[BradleyT2p2]

Originally Posted by AndyWiltshireNZ

Sounds good brad, what would you say are the benefits of Firebug over the WebDev tool?

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.

[HendryLee]

I've been using both Web Developer and Firebug.. and also MeasureIt (to measure size of any browser object)

They work on Flock, which is good to know.

[Groady]

I've used the Web Developer toolbar for over a year now and find the "View Style Information" under the CSS menu very handy especially for finding what's-what in your newly installed wordpress theme.