Mozilla for Testing Web Apps

Normally, I try to avoid Slashdot articles because reading about MS stuff is like watching FoxNews cover the democratic national convention.  But here's an article that while poorly written does have a good point Using Mozilla in testing and debugging web sites.  The article is pretty much just showing how much better Mozilla is than IE for debugging websites, but it still points out some nice features of Mozilla.  One thing it does leave off is Checky.  Checky does all sort of validation on your pages.  Normally you just hit F10 and the agent runs (which I have it do HTML and CSS validation), but I'm having trouble with the beta 1.4 version of Mozilla.  Still a great tool.  If your website isn't displaying properly in Mozilla, you probably goofed on the CSS someplace that IE is letting you get away with.

So, in summary:  Mozilla is an excellent tool for web development, but Linux dorks needing to point out "l00k w3 r b3tr than M$ I3 lol lol" to get that point across are simply morons.  That article needs to be rewritten to show how to use Mozilla as a test development platform, and that article alone would stand by itself without the childish IE bashing.

Classic Slashdot comment (modded up to a 4 "interesting"):

"Platforms for C#: 0 Windows .NET is still .NOT
Platforms for Java: Windows, Solaris, Linux, AIX, Irix, Tru64, ........"

I think I'm going to set myself on fire.

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