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We have discussed some powerful in-browser tools that may help you to make your Web development process easy. With them we can solve many web development problems we are facing today. Some are specific to particular Web technologies find out what’s your favorite web development tool, let us know in the comments section.
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7 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools Every web browser includes a useful set of web development tools which are commonly known as add-ons or extensions. These tools can do a lot of powerful things from inspecting the loadedHTML,JavaScript or CSScodes,editing,debugging, access FTP source filesto showing off the changes .some are specially designed toevaluate the accessibility of your website. In Thisarticle we explore how to use the basic functions of these in-browser web development tools. You’ll find tools for popular Web browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer. You may find a variety of tools discussed here useful for your next project. Firebug Authors: Joe Hewitt, Jan Odvarko, Rob Campbell, Firebug Working Group Firebug is a free tool and a Firefox extension that allows you toInspect, edit and debug website code and Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript within your browser.Before this developers use alert () function to find out what line the code breaks.
You can turn styles on or off or add styles on the fly. Web Developer Author: Chris Pederick Web developer extension found on both crome and firefox it provides a toolkit for viewing, editing and debugging websites.It’s helpful for exploring and understanding large CSS files and projects. It gives the control over any site and provide us a visual representation of how a site is built on the front end."
YSlow Author: Yahoo YSlow is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser.It simply allows you to inspect the elements in detail which help you to improve your website performance and recommends solutions. ColorZilla Author: Alex Sirota, Isoart Labs Colorzilla is a useful extension for firefox which identifies what colors are used on a Web page and what looks good for your web design, it creates a palette for you and lets you adjust the colors or copy/paste them elsewhere.
Internet Explorer Web Developer Toolbar Author: Microsoft IE web developer toolbar gives you access to many helpful options by editing the Web page’s DOM and HTML directly in the browser, for setting breakpoints, seeing the call stack and exploring the other Web page components
Fiddler Web Debugger Author: Telerik / Fiddler Web Debugger Fiddler is a powerful Internet Explorer extension. It will help you to know exactly what happens when a client requests a Web page, upon start, Fiddler checks automatically for new versions. HttpWatch Author : Simtec Limited HttpWatch is another HTTP traffic viewer and debugger for Firefox and Internet Explorer
Conclusion We have discussed some powerful in-browser tools that may help you to make your Web development process easy. With them we can solve many web development problems we are facing today. Some are specific to particular Web technologies find out what’s your favorite web development tool, let us know in the comments section.