51 Comments
- mc_hambone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aardvark is prettier: http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/
- shockingbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Automagically, here's a screenie:
http://www.shockingbird.com/glomer2/members/upload/xray_extension_full.jpg - mrfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It doesn't exactly tell me anything I couldn't already guess. if it enabled table borders well that would have been different. No Digg
- odysseus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you have the Web Developer extension (by Chris Pederick) installed, you can already do something similar:
WebDevBar > Misc > Edit HTML (opens HTML tags in sidebar for live editing)
WebDevBar > Info > View Document Outline - senzafine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sure this is a cool extension...but I think i still prefer the dom inspector for most things...
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/ - Vladk1000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is cool, I'll try it out.
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http://ultra-tech.blogspot.com/ - sokz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pretty neat, but can't you just open the code and page in different tabs or windows? still, the extension makes sense.
- robnoxious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0odysseus said "If you have the Web Developer extension (by Chris Pederick) installed, you can already do something similar:
WebDevBar > Misc > Edit HTML (opens HTML tags in sidebar for live editing) - robnoxious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0odysseus said ... If you have the Web Developer extension (by Chris Pederick) installed, you can already do something similar:
WebDevBar > Misc > Edit HTML (opens HTML tags in sidebar for live editing)
WebDevBar > Info > View Document Outline
I am not seeing either of these and I am running this ext.
Rob - DoraLives, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Once again, Firefox (and it's wonderful world of extensions and the neato folks who cook them up) proves why IE is a complete piece of junk and will always and forever be playing catch up without a prayer of moving into the fore.
- mgreenwald, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn I thought it was a real x-ray and I am sorely disappointed.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0screenshot?
- Alistair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Once I installed this extension, it made the search field in my Google Toolbar unusable. Once I uninstalled XRay, the functionality returned.
- surfing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Works on a few sites, but not at all on gmail...
- mcdett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg was the first site I "X-Rayed"
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very cool extension, it would be even cooler if you gave it some kind of xray look.
- caldroun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think this is good in conjunction with the web developer toolbar. The newest Web Developer Toolbar is awesome.
- jaknet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"running 1.0.7 here ... and this thing sucks".............. need any more be said 1.5 is current version.... Do you expect every new idea to run on old software
- WildBil2Me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Aardvark is prettier: http://www.karmatics.com/aardvark/"
I'd been using Aardvark for sometime - but there seem to be some bugs since updating to Ff 2.0
Another great extension that does something similar is titled "View Rendered Source Chart." It will re-render the page showing only the HTML tags but creating a hierarchical diagram which shows how div tags, spans and tables are set up.
Very nice web-dev extensions all the way around. - cjsmith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1running 1.0.7 here ... and this thing sucks. it isn't legible at all and there's no way to turn it off once you activate it. *pow* *zam* *ziiiiinng* - in the crapper
- stuartr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Updated in 0.7
* display class and id attributes for elements
Updated in 0.6
* Support for a wider range of XHTML elements
* Can now be toggled on and off without reloading the page
* No longer interferes with the keyboard shortcut to cut text - garcimore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's a custom stylesheet, so what ?! the DOM inspector, or the rendered source code thingy are 10.000 times better than that
- exosyst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0With regards to drbhoneydew above, Does this essentially perform the same thing as Opera User Mode. If so, why is this an extension to firefox, can it not be done as a CSS switcher like opera users? It seems a nice lightweight way of doing it!
- DZNpusher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have to agree... the Web Developer extension is pretty kick ass.
Still, X-Ray looks like it works for a quick elements overview, so still a good find.
I can digg it. - lerch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So what is the point of this? This would annoy the heck out of me.
- NeilM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...and it's totally not useful for me! LOL It shall make somebody else happy, though. :-)
- milkcow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0UUU/UUUU
- SecularG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It doesn't show to well. It just places the open and close tags on the page in the their correct places around the content.
Use Webdeveloper Toolbar 1.0. I feel it is much nicer. It outlines the space the element contains and displays what the markup is quite nicely. - drbhoneydew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1So firefox needs to use extensions to get on a par with Opera 6? 2 words. Big Wow.
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree with odysseus and caldroun, the Web Developer extension blows this thing out of the water. Nothing can beat it and it's invaluable for developers.
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60 - geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very handy. Thanks! Dugg.
- mrjeffery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just downloaded FF to try this out (opera user). Also trying to learn html...NICE
- Abatrour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You could always do something similar to that in Firefox, highlight the area of the webpage that you want to look at the source for, right click and click "view selected souce"
- Anargeek77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0uber cool!!!!!!!!!
- CarbonAndroid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0like it
- raven001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting extension. Nice.
There is no reason why extensions should have to be backward compatible to earlier versions of Firefox. 1.5 is the current version. Update or go without the newer stuff. - h4lfl1ng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg
added to my webdev extensions I cannot live without
colorzilla,webdeveloper toolbar,ie tab, and much more - spinoza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool. It lets me see the person who wrote the HTML page coding in their underwear.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice -- +digg
- jla1987, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Won't install for me. Download Error.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0double ++digg it! this is waaay better than those x-ray spex in the back of the magazine.
@cjsmith - hit reload to counteract the effect - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is useless, why would I want to see the ,,or tags???
- binaryHalf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0liked it very much. dugg
- gookie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OPERA has this feature long time ago already?
Are FF extensions just ports of cool Opera kick-ass features? - angloafro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0First, in response to Doralives - um IE is in the "fore" and always HAS been, firefox is actually playing catch up, and at an unexpectedly slow pace at that.
CJSmith - to turn it off, simply refresh the page.
To everyone else - This is a sad sad tool, it supports only a few tags, many of which you could guess on your own, and further, it doesn't give you the attributes of the tags which define the behavior of the tags. Why should I care that some text is placed in a versus a if I don't know the font, alignment & placement of the div? Having a tooltip of the css code or attribute/value for each defined property of the tag would make this purposeful. For now I'm with senzafine, I'll stick with the DOM inspector.
no digg - nopal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Perfect!
- Merlinhoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0blows me away arrrgh
- Sc0rian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0good digg!
- Jarrod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Love it.
- BlazinX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0niice.


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