Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
IE Alternatives to Firebug
Firefox is very likely the browser of choice for many web developers, and with one very good reason: Firebug, which is, IMHO, hands-down the most important web development tool around. Seriously, if you haven’t tried Firebug, you’re probably wasting a lot of development time.
It’s so good, Yahoo! have created a full-time position just to develop it. I saw a little preview during Nate Koechley’s talk at @media 2007; they’ve built a plug-in architecture, of which the first is probably going to be a page load analyser. It’s an IDE in itself - and it’s a free plugin!
Now, my personal opinion of Internet Explorer aside, I do appreciate the effort their team is making to engage the development community. In a new blog post they’ve listed a series of development tools and plugins for developers, so if you’re in the unfortunate position of having to develop in IE (or, perhaps, you are just a bit weird and choose to do so), you can experience a small sample of the Firebug goodness. Doesn’t beat the real thing, though.
Seree Woradechjamroen [September 8th, 2007, 5:01 am; Permalink]
Hi,
I’m finding for alternatives of FireBug to use with Internet Explorer and found this very useful. Now, I’m working with Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar and very interesting to try those IEWatch and DebugBar as linked from your post.
Thanks again,
Seree W.
ernest leitch [November 21st, 2007, 1:15 am; Permalink]
That was a nice tip. Thanks for the page.
Royce Walters [March 6th, 2008, 6:09 pm; Permalink]
Fiddler Tool from Microsoft. There’s nothing better that has native IE support right now.
Guy Whitfield [April 18th, 2008, 7:01 pm; Permalink]
Fiddler and DebugBar get me most of the way there when bug fixing in IE.
It’s amazing to thing of a time before Firebug, I positively evangelise it to all new/young dev’s I meet. Saves so much time in the long run.
That being said, Safari is lagging on this front, the Develop option in the tool bar is woefully underspecced.
Nice post.
Phill Brown [June 14th, 2008, 1:39 pm; Permalink]
This is informative, exactly what I was looking for.
I have the unfortunate task of tracking a bug in ie,
I miss firebug already!