Where Are The Wise Men?

I’ve been hearing a lot about Firebug lately, and even had a hard-core web guy tell me, “You should really be using Firebug.”  This morning I needed to do some deep JavaScript changes. I knew that it would be ugly, so I installed it.

And, wow.  That’s all I can say.

You can turn Firebug  on and off for any page.  When it’s enable, you will see a status on the bottom right.  If the page checks okay, you see a green checkmark.  If there is an error, you see a red X and clicking it will take you to the console.  A click later and you can get to the offending JavaScript, and change it inline to see what happens.

But it’s not just for JavaScript!  You can click that green checkmark anytime and explore the DOM (the browser then flashes the section you are hovering over in the DOM explorer).  You can change CSS inline as well, and content, too. I’ve only played with it for a few hours, but it’s very, very nice.  I’m sure there is more things to explore in it as well.

Here’s a video of Firebug’s author giving a tour to the YUI folks.

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