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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

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...

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 - 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 . 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 . 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

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