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Web Development Extensions (Firefox)

With the Web Developer Extension and Html Validator for Firefox and Mozilla , Firefox is very appealing towards web developers (those that care about standards and accessibility that is). MozEdit is targeted at web developers as is FireFTP . You can debug JavaScript with the Venkman JavaScript Debugger . What there doesn't seem to be (that I know of) is a CSS editor (one that works like NVU 's, or Dreamweaver MX; not a side bar with the CSS in plain text - like the Web Developer Extension or EditCSS ). You could probably combine all these into one extension and have a Web Development IDE. I wonder if anyone does all their development in Firefox? Internet Explorer does not seem to have tools like this that integrate well with it. Is it even possible to have the same things in it? Tags: Firefox , Web Developer , Web Development , Firefox Extensions

Text Clips for Programmers Notepad 2 (XHTML)

Update (23 June, 2005) : Added DOCTYPEs. More Programmers Notepad 2 text clips. Some tags are not included (b, big, i, small, sub, sup) as these can be replaced with existing tags (em, strong), or styled using CSS. Create a file in the clips sub directory of the Programmers Notepad directory, with the extension .clips (i.e. xhtmltags.clips) and paste in the following code: <?xml version="1.0"?> <clips name="XHTML Tags"> <clip name="------ DOCTYPEs ------"></clip> <clip name="XHTML 1.0 transitional"><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">|]]></clip> <clip name="XHTML 1.0 strict"><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">|]]></clip> <clip name="XHTML 1.1

Netscape 8 Beta

No download yet, but Netscape has put up a page listing the features of the soon to be released Netscape 8 Beta . Having the IE renderer (Trident) as part of the browser may be helpful to those sites that refuse to work in other browsers, but it discourages web developers to code in a standards way (they will just tell the users to put Netscape in IE mode). I though they would have done a suite, based on Firefox, Thunderbird and Chatzilla. Perhaps in 8.1. Tags: Netscape , Netscape Beta , Netscape 8 , Firefox

XML Marker

XML Marker - Free XML Editor- Easily browse and edit XML files. . Makes editing XML files easier.

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: An Easier Way to Highlight the Rows of a DataGrid on MouseOver

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: An Easier Way to Highlight the Rows of a DataGrid on MouseOver . Uses CSS to apply an hover effect on table rows (JavaScript hack needed for IE due to it's limited :hover support). Tags: CSS , Internet Explorer , Firefox , ASP.NET , DataGrid

ASP.NET Resources - Fixing Microsoft's Knowledge Base Articles With CSS

ASP.NET Resources - Fixing Microsoft's Knowledge Base Articles With CSS . All code blocks on Microsoft's knowledge base are displayed with whitespace ignored (so no line breaks or indenting etc). IE Windows obviously does not have this issue. I wouldn't be surprised if it was done on purpose, to make other browsers look bad. Tags: CSS

Internet Explorer 7

There really will be an IE7 (for XP at least). No mention of standards support though, but hopefully it will be improved. There will be a lot of criticism if CSS support isn't better than IE6 and PNG transparency still does not work. Probably still stick with Firefox though. Tags: Internet Explorer , IE7

Text Clips for Programmers Notepad 2 (ASP.NET)

Update (23 June, 2005) : Added Directives . Programmers Notepad 2 has a feature for inserting snippets of code, or text clips into an open document. This is helpful when you have code that is often inserted into multiple files. I have created a clips file which contains snippets useful for ASP.NET development. Create a file in the clips sub directory of the Programmers Notepad directory, with the extension .clips (i.e. aspnet.clips ) and paste in the following code: <?xml version="1.0"?> <clips name="ASP.NET"> <clip name="----- Directives ----"></clip> <clip name="Assembly"><![CDATA[<%@ Assembly Name="|" %>]]></clip> <clip name="Control (C#)"><![CDATA[<%@ Control Language="C#" %>|]]></clip> <clip name="Control (VB)"><![CDATA[<%@ Control Language="VB" %>|]]></clip> <clip name="Implements&quo

CSS Support Charts

Various browsers CSS support charts: http://www.corecss.com/properties/full-chart.php - lacks latest Mozilla versions (since 1.0) and later Opera versions (after 7.0) http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html - only latest version browsers http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/browser_support/ - IE, Netscape and Opera only Tags: CSS

Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox

An official toolbar for Firefox from Yahoo. Digitally signed as well. I wonder when Google will do the same (doubt MSN will do one). To see what else Yahoo is developing, visit Yahoo Next . Tags: Yahoo Toolbar , Firefox

JavaScript References

Some useful references when developing web pages with JavaScript: W3C ECMA Script Language Binding (DOM level 1) Gecko DOM Reference - used by Firefox (cross platform), Mozilla (cross platform), Netscape (cross platform), Camino (Mac OSX), Epiphany (Gnome desktop), Galeon (Gnome desktop), K-Meleon (Windows) Internet Explorer (Windows) Opera (cross platform) Safari (Mac OSX) KHTML DOM - used by Safari (Mac OSX) and Konqueror (KDE desktop) Edit (11 Feb 2005): Mozilla Object Reference - useful if you want a reference for Mozilla development in general. Tags: JavaScript , Gecko , Firefox , Mozilla , Netscape , Internet Explorer , Opera , Safari , KHTML

Browser Alternatives: Beyond Internet Explorer

ExtremeTech Review of Internet Explorer alternatives. Avant and Maxthon are just shells built on IE. Browsers being reviewed: Avant Firefox Maxthon Netscape Opera Tags: Avant , Firefox , Maxthon , Netscape , Opera , Internet Explorer

nonadmin.editme.com

nonadmin.editme.com - A Wiki site (i.e. users can edit the site online, with only a web browser) for running Windows as a limited user. Tags: NonAdmin , Windows

And all that Malarkey [CSS: Hold the front page]

And all that Malarkey [CSS: Hold the front page] . Magazine style (multi columns) using CSS and definition lists. More semantically correct than using DIV's and SPAN's. Tags: CSS , HTML

Passing Parameters from One Page to Another (ASP.NET)

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Passing Parameters from One Page to Another , much like the Code Project article I mentioned before and UrlQuery ( Url Manipulation (C#) - Jul 22nd, 2004, Url Manipulation v2 (C#) - Sep 22nd, 2004). Tags: CSharp , ASP.NET

Neowin Interviews Dave Massy

Neowin has done an interview with Dave Massy , the Senior Program Manager on Internet Explorer. Interesting how he says it is the 'choice' of millions of users. It is bundled with the operating system, and perhaps many people do not know what a web browser is, or know that there are alternatives to the one with the system. You do get a lot of addons for IE, but many of them are not free and are installed for every user (plus need admin rights to do so), unlike Firefox where extensions are user specific (although I am sure they can be installed for all users). Tags: Internet Explorer , Firefox