Good tools are important, for a professional, so certainly for an APEX developer. Most simple and quickly to use, for a look under the hood, is of course the ‘right mouse click’ and ‘view source’. It tells you everything, but mostly it is difficult to read. This is the time to tackle your tools.
Firebug.
The most used tool I think is Firebug. It can only be used in combination with Firefox. (Are there other browsers?)
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Web Developer.
Yesterday I accidentally discovered another very nice and extensive tool, Web Developer. The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. After installing the extension there is a ‘Web Developer’ menu under the ‘Tools’ and context menu of the browser, as well as a new toolbar.
This tool has so many options, it is a very nice addition to all the good things Firefox has to offer. And, not unimportant, both tools are free to use!
Do you have other suggestions for tools that are useful for APEX developers, respond to this blog, let the world know.
Links:
Firebug: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
Webdeveloper: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
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Yslow is a very nice addition to firebug:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Yslow gives performance improvement suggestions for your web pages.
Chrome has a firebug look-a-like under the cover (ctrl-shift-I, ctrl-shift-j). For IE (bluh) there is also Firebug Lite.