More Web Development with Internet Explorer

kevinisom — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:55:44 GMT

I have mentioned previously some useful tools for web development for IE, and now here are a couple more.

DOM Helper

This allows you to edit the css of a page much like EditCSS for Firefox

"Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language."

A cool feature of Fiddler is the ability to write extensions for it. Definitely worthy looking into

Delicious

And not development related but damn useful (finally) is the Delicious plugin for IE. I have a tonne of bookmarks, keeping them synced between browsers and machines used to be a nightmare. Now I just use Delicious for IE and Firefox on all my machines and my problem is solved....Now if I could just cull some of my 2456 links I have saved I'd be alright.

Web Development with Internet Explorer

kevinisom — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:01:00 GMT

Firebug rocks. Nothing, I mean nothing beats it for debug web pages. But what do you do for problems specific to IE (most notably IE 6) Here are a list of tools I use to help cause telling the user to get a real browser is not a solution

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

This toolbar provides some of the features of firebug.

XRAY

Is a bookmarklet that let's you see information about elements on a page.

Companion.JS

An javascript debugger for IE

This may not be free in the future. Debug Bar from the same guy is also a very useful tool, but it's not free for professional use but probably worth the 59 euro if you do a lot of work with IE.

And finally something while not useful for debugging but damn useful in its own right is the Inline Search for IE.

Hope this helps somebody out.

Kevin Isom : Tools

More Web Development with Internet Explorer

DOM Helper

Fiddler

Delicious

Web Development with Internet Explorer