What is Digg?49 Comments
- jcblitz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33I see no practical application of this. It seems like a toy.
- thepope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26You know what else is good for developers? Firefox.
Try out Firebug and the Web Developer Tools and this will look like a child's toy - Aupajo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Check out the Web Developer add-on for Firefox, blows this away.
- Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Yeah, I'd take the Firebug and Web Developer extensions any day.
- isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Notepad++ for sure on Windows.
- Pyro979, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If you like those two, I highly suggest Firebug
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1843/ - toconnor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The IE Developer Toolbar can outline any tag type in specific colors as well as countless other extremely useful DOM related tricks. I've only been using it for a couple hours and don't know how I've ever lived without it!
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en - rpike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@bushawa
Notepad 2 is what you are looking for.
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And... since the IE dev Bar is a copy of the Firefox Dev bar, your know it's just as good if not better.
http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
Seriously Web Developer and Aardvarrk are the only tools I've ever used to spot my layout problems. - bushawa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Anyone know of a simple text-editor to code in for windows that will allow different font colors based on the tag used?
I love notepad and all, but I need something with a little more, but nothing above and beyond. If I had a mac I would use textmate. - codenexus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree that Web Developer is a way cool add-on for Firefox.
If you don't have either Firefox and/or Web Developer and you are in web development I suggest you get them both now. Firebug is also good but I find that I don't use it as often as Web Developer.
Another add-on I use is FireFTP. Just for keeping things handy though it isn't the best FTP client out there it is useful if you quickly want to upload a file. - Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Firebug is the premiere addon for today's developer. Blows this and the web developer toolbar away."
I dunno about that--the Web Developer toolbar has a lot of features FireBug doesn't have, and vice versa. I personally use them both.
Anything is better than these bookmarklets, though. - antechinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3bookmarklets - what a wanker
- thecha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't get it?
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5"I love notepad"
You ***** masochists make me sick! ;-) - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's a toy, but at least it can be useful. I don't always have the web dev toolbar showing and these are fun to play with. Definitely dugg tough, just for the coolness of the idea alone.
Biggest problem: obscuring text when you tinge things. - smhill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Pretty much overkill. There is no reason to rely on a remote server for simple javascript. You can enter it right in your URL bar and bookmark it.
Since I can easily paste javascript in digg comments, I put together a page with some examples:
http://scott-hill.net/bookmarklets/
Basic examples of how it works, but you can easily get the point.
But really Firebug is the way to go for Firefox. Or if you prefer Safari, WebDevAdditions : http://www.laszlo.com.pl/webdev/ - Dreamchaser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds great! Though took time to load.. due to Digg effect :D !
- Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've the got the Web Developer extension next to my file menu and firebug only has an icon in the bottom toolbar.
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sorry, I don't understand the point of this
- symbha, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4@bushawa et. al.
UltraEdit blows that other stuff away. It's extremely well supported, massively configurable and a number of novel features such as open and save from/to FTP.
http://www.ultraedit.com/ - Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -0/+1There is hardly anything on that site. This one has a lot more, even though it hasn't been updated in a while.
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
The "clone slowly" one is great, and AFAIK web developer doesn't have that. - MarvelingOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I prefer Textpad
- Cabeza2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.editplus.com/
- wcbzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.duggmirror.com/
- findhostcoupons, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1It is very important to select color combinations correctly when developing a website!
- Jaymz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think Aardvark handles this better:
http://karmatics.com/aardvark/ - thesimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i cant really see the advantage of using this, Web developer toolbar does the same, but while automatically displaying info of wherever you hover the mouse
- PlaidPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1May be a bit more than what you want, but I'm partial to Crimson Editor. Some of my profs use it, and they turned me on to it.
- bushawa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I knew I could count on ya!
- TheIconoclast31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...and you have toolbars filling half your screen.
They need to make it smaller, and then maybe I'll install it. - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I always look out for new tools to help me with my web design and programming.
I use Firebug, Web Dev and HTML Tidy (for validation), and they do everything I need. This may be a cool proof-of-concept, or pet project, but it's still next-to-useless. One of those things where you go "wow" and get bored 2 minutes later when you realise you have no practical need for it. Kind of like 99% of the items on ThinkGeek.com :) - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree with you though your spelling is weird.
- tobaco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the great advantage of these bokkmarlets is, that they work in all modern browsers. firebug is just for ff. IE Developer Toolbar is just for ie. tingelets use can use anywhere.
- tablelegs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I prefer to just like, look at sites instead of turning their different tags retarded with stupid tiled backgrounds. How does this help web developers?
- essjay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think this is more complementary than competing wrt the Web Developer Extension and X Ray. Combine the 3 and you've got a pretty powerful way to dissect the markup of pages.
- doubledowndan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Firebug is the premiere addon for today's developer. Blows this and the web developer toolbar away. But Dugg because i love seeing digg cover developer tools. It's the thought that counts.
- solidad, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1seems like it's down...yay! :P
- bondjamsbond, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Heck yeah... these are fantastic for devs. You can use these to visually perceive how a website is built or for your own debugging needs, they could provide at-a-glance diagnosis for rendering issues.
You can already identify elements visually with other tools like Firebug and others, but these appear to do a better job on just the visual aspect.
My only complaint is that there are so many! Eaten up that browser chrome. - excidy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Hmm,,, the "Digg eFFect" phenomenon again!
- eksujoy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I have tried it, it works great but the bad thing is that I have to use it only when my pc is connected to internet..
- dgritsko, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Agreed - if only the Web Developer toolbar could integrate the functionality of these bookmarklets. That way they'd take up less space but still be accessible (if they had their own submenu or something like that).
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1These are really useful. I hope the offline version comes soon - I _must_ change the images that are used, and well, it's getting hammered by digg. :)
- tom12, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0I think there are more better tools than this to view HTML in color.
http://www.desiclassifieds.com/index.php?catid=20 - iterrell, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1jedit
- superdeluxe, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1Yes, this is great for web developers... very useful!
- Cyanbane, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3This is great for Web Devs.
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