> DOM Inspector's excellent for javascript debugging, as you can use the full screen easily and can switch windows fast (extremely useful for debugging the tangle of JS in some webapps).
Perhaps you haven't tried Firebug 1.0, which allows you to open Firebug as a separate window. Versions prior to 1.0 did restrict you to a panel at the bottom of the browser.
The DOM Inspector is not part of the Web Developer extension - it is included with Firefox itself. Web Developer simply includes a shortcut to DOM Inspector.
DOM Inspector was actually written by the same person who wrote Firebug: myself, 6 years ago. There is no reason to use DOM Inspector any longer. Firebug does everything it does and more, but with a much more pleasant and modern user interface.
The article links to the wrong page for Firebug, it is currently pointing to the old version of the extension (0.4.1). Firebug 1.0 beta is a dramatic step ahead of 0.4, and you can get it at http://www.getfirebug.com/
It would be a shame if everyone installs 0.4 and misses out on all the great new stuff in 1.0.
They did replace the Python script wrapper with Javascript, and they have optimized the code quite a bit and added some new features. However, as far as I can tell, the markup language and general architecture hasn't changed much at all.
Triton was completely re-written from scratch using a new GUI toolkit called "Boxely", which was derived from Mozilla's XUL. As a result, this new AIM is extremely extensible, and hackable.
Poke around in C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\AIMBeta\services and you'll find a bunch of javascript and xml files (ending in.box). These contain the code that drives the entire product. You can easily modify and extend AIM, just as you can write extensions for Firefox with XUL. This is no accident, AOL wants developers to build on AIM as a platform.
When I worked at AOL, I developed Boxely as a fun side project. I left the company a year ago, but they kept my project alive and now seem to be building real software with it. I probably should have open sourced it from the beginning.
On my blog I've written more about Boxely and how it compares to XUL: http://www.joehewitt.com/
I'm blown away by Google Maps but there is one annoying problem that I've noticed: You can't just bookmark a map on Google Maps, you have to first click a "Link to this Page" link to put the state of the map into the URL.
I've described a simple solution for this problem on my blog just in case the folks at Google read Slashdot and want to make my new favorite mapping website just a little bit better:)
The concept of using a console to access the internet is obscene and ridiculous. Do you realize how little legible information you can fit on a television? Not to mention the fact that living rooms aren't exactly the best place to sit down and type, for ergonomic reasons. PC's aren't going anywhere. Playstation 2 is good for video games and movies, and that's it. Nice try, Sony. Now if everybody had an HDTV, this would be a different story.
How do you feel about the slow-moving, but imminent trend of using scripting to make web pages work more like applications than documents?
With W3C standards like DOM Level 2 and SVG coming down the pipes, developers will have more and more power to make the browser much more intelligent than it is today. This opens up a whole new world of user-interfaces where a website may not be seen as a hierarchy of "pages" but a single application with it's own functionality.
When more browsers support these standards, do you advocate more developers use this "dynamic" paradigm, or do you prefer that the browser just download static pages which link to other pages?
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> DOM Inspector's excellent for javascript debugging, as you can use the full screen easily and can switch windows fast (extremely useful for debugging the tangle of JS in some webapps).
Perhaps you haven't tried Firebug 1.0, which allows you to open Firebug as a separate window. Versions prior to 1.0 did restrict you to a panel at the bottom of the browser.
The DOM Inspector is not part of the Web Developer extension - it is included with Firefox itself. Web Developer simply includes a shortcut to DOM Inspector.
DOM Inspector was actually written by the same person who wrote Firebug: myself, 6 years ago. There is no reason to use DOM Inspector any longer. Firebug does everything it does and more, but with a much more pleasant and modern user interface.
The article links to the wrong page for Firebug, it is currently pointing to the old version of the extension (0.4.1). Firebug 1.0 beta is a dramatic step ahead of 0.4, and you can get it at http://www.getfirebug.com/
It would be a shame if everyone installs 0.4 and misses out on all the great new stuff in 1.0.
They did replace the Python script wrapper with Javascript, and they have optimized the code quite a bit and added some new features. However, as far as I can tell, the markup language and general architecture hasn't changed much at all.
Triton was completely re-written from scratch using a new GUI toolkit called "Boxely", which was derived from Mozilla's XUL. As a result, this new AIM is extremely extensible, and hackable.
.box). These contain the code that drives the entire product. You can easily modify and extend AIM, just as you can write extensions for Firefox with XUL. This is no accident, AOL wants developers to build on AIM as a platform.
Poke around in C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\AIMBeta\services and you'll find a bunch of javascript and xml files (ending in
When I worked at AOL, I developed Boxely as a fun side project. I left the company a year ago, but they kept my project alive and now seem to be building real software with it. I probably should have open sourced it from the beginning.
On my blog I've written more about Boxely and how it compares to XUL: http://www.joehewitt.com/
I'm blown away by Google Maps but there is one annoying problem that I've noticed: You can't just bookmark a map on Google Maps, you have to first click a "Link to this Page" link to put the state of the map into the URL.
:)
I've described a simple solution for this problem on my blog just in case the folks at Google read Slashdot and want to make my new favorite mapping website just a little bit better
http://www.joehewitt.com/
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The concept of using a console to access the internet is obscene and ridiculous. Do you realize how little legible information you can fit on a television? Not to mention the fact that living rooms aren't exactly the best place to sit down and type, for ergonomic reasons. PC's aren't going anywhere. Playstation 2 is good for video games and movies, and that's it. Nice try, Sony. Now if everybody had an HDTV, this would be a different story.
How do you feel about the slow-moving, but imminent trend of using scripting to make web pages work more like applications than documents?
With W3C standards like DOM Level 2 and SVG coming down the pipes, developers will have more and more power to make the browser much more intelligent than it is today. This opens up a whole new world of user-interfaces where a website may not be seen as a hierarchy of "pages" but a single application with it's own functionality.
When more browsers support these standards, do you advocate more developers use this "dynamic" paradigm, or do you prefer that the browser just download static pages which link to other pages?