Aardvark
Yes I’d love to get my hands on one so it’ll clean my front yard of all the pesky ants but that’s not the Aardvark I’m talking about. I came across the Aardvark extension for Firefox few weeks ago and it’s been so helpful in so many occasions, I just had to talk about it. It’s basically an interactive version of Firefox’s more popular extension “Web Developer Toolbar’s” outline function. You just enable the Aardvark and hover your cursor over any items on the page and it’ll tell you which tag that item is using and outline its boundaries. And with some shortcut keys, you can expand the tag to its parents, delete it from the page view, view its source code, etc, which reduces the troubleshooting time greatly when dealing with complex css/html codes. Give it a whirl and see how much it can help with your coding.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Those are good tools but the best tool for development is Firebug. I can’t live without it now. I barely use the Web Dev Toolbar anymore. Look for it, you won’t regret it.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
I actually had this installed long ago but I ended up changing computer before I got too attached to it so I forgot to reinstall it. Thanks for the reminder. I just checked out their site and it looks hell of a lot better than I remembered. I’ll definitely be reinstalling this one.