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What a fantastic idea! Rather than wading through a whole file to see how something was coded on a web page, use this method to see only the part you need.
<edit> aha - Web Developers Accessories
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/webaccess/webdevaccess.exe
- but the page doesn't exist anymore :( </edit>
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:26 am (utc) on Nov. 11, 2003]
[edit reason] virus risk - please don't directly link to executables... [/edit]
www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/webdevaccess.asp
Works fine in IE 6.x, regardless of the Note on the page - feels like my old friend is back...
...is that in Firebird as well?
Yes
I'm assuming that there's currently nothing similar for Opera?
I'm glad I've started keeping multiple browsers around....
bcolflesh, thanks for the link to the IE version. The exe file wouldn't work for me so I did a search for the file and found this page...
http://www.wats.ca/resources/testingtools/44
...it has that little goodie and a few other neat add-ons there. It might be of use to some people.
2odd...
How about this other one? Click on a table cell, or a group of table cells, a row, a column, or a whole table, while holding down the Control key and you can see the cell or table borders temporarily outlined. You can then also copy all of the selected cell contents to the clipboard.
Do it with the Shift key held down, instead, and it will highlight all of the cells between the first selected and the last selected.
That's neat too!
Which brings me back to my old argument about the browser wars. Rendering should work the same across all browsers. JS/CSS should work across all browsers period.
Let the wars be fought on the nifty features, not on basic functionality.
Just like all keyboards today will work with a PS2 port regardless of manufacturer. The little buttons make one different from the other. But the "Q" is always in the same place.
Unless you're in France, where they use an AZERTY keyboard instead.
I find the multiplicity of International keyboard layouts extremely confusing.
[edited by: g1smd at 5:53 pm (utc) on Nov. 7, 2003]
Can't believe that question was asked.
it seems you under-estimate the power of laziness.
Here's the MS add-on [microsoft.com] (works fine in IE6)
another one is IE Booster [paessler.com]
and there are a few bookmarklets/favlets to do it too
If you like Mozilla in it's standard configuration, then take a look at these extensions to it :
[multizilla.mozdev.org...]
- you can switch javascript on and off quickly
- you can change user-agent and referrer
[livehttpheaders.mozdev.org...]
- you can trap the transmission details between the browser and the server
[placenamehere.com...]
- you can switch off stylesheets,
- you can outline page elements,
- you can send a URL to validation
All of the above mentioned has *really* *great* value when developing, debugging, and testing websites
checky.mozdev.org/
.
Mode (click the bookmarklet to tell you the browser mode for the current page):
javascript:(function(){var mode=document.compatMode,m; if(mode){if(mode=='BackCompat')m='Quirks'; else if(mode=='CSS1Compat')m='Standards Compliance';else m='';alert('The document is being rendered in '+m+' Mode.');}})();
.
Validate HTML 4.01:
javascript:void(window.open('http://validator.w3.org/check?uri='+window.location+'&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional&ss=1&outline=1&sp=1&verbose=1'))
.
Validate CSS:
javascript:void(window.open('http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri='+window.location+'&warning=1&profile=css2'))
- you can switch off stylesheets,
- you can outline page elements
Opera comes with these features as standard.
Opera comes with these features as standard.
Opera does not have one thing Mozilla has.
Being an open source project, Mozilla has a lot of extension modules and more are being developed constantly.
