Firebug has released a beta of the first full version, 1.0. The previous version was extremely helpful. This version is beyond helpful. I dare say it goes all the way to, "Wow!"
I don't use Firebug because I'm a Firefox browser user. I'm a Firefox browser user because of extensions like Firebug.
Thanks for this Shelley - I just finished a video training program for work and needed to put up a linking web page. In trying to build a css file for it I inadvertently substituted a ( for a { and of course it did not work. Firebug helped me find where the error was.
I like opera myself ( both the norwegian and italian version of it ). But for webdevelopment, especially when using ajax, i highly recommend this extension. I'm not sure though how it's javascript debugger compares to the Venkman debugger.
[…] Thanks to Shelley Powers, I came to know the existence of Firebug, already quoted by other influential bloggers but overlooked by myself at the time of those readings. Firebug is a Firefox plug-in that lets you play with in an interactive way with various parts of web pages during browse and development activities. After a brief consult with the holder of LTI-LA (an Italian academic course at the Second Engineering Faculty of the University of Bologna), as course tutor I was given the task of evaluating the plug-in for use by students during lessons and in the laboratory activities afterwards. […]
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