Web Developer Extension 1.0

Posted on Wednesday, January 04 2006 @ 16:39 CET by LSDsmurf

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 Mozilla, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Added a 'Help' link
Added an option for hiding the informational dialogs
Added an option to open the DOM Inspector in the sidebar
Added an option to open the JavaScript console in the sidebar
Added confirmation dialogs for all the permanent clearing and deleting features
Added support for changing the generated text size
Added support for configuring the 'Validate Local HTML' and 'Validate Local CSS' settings
Added support for easier toggling of 'Show element names when outlining elements'
Added support for Flock
Added support for opening the page in another application
Added support for retrieving file contents from the cache rather than a new request
Added the features:
- Add Cookie
- Clear All Private Data
- Convert Select Elements To Text Inputs
- Delete Path Cookies
- Disable External Site Images
- Disable Meta Redirects
- Disable Minimum Font Size
- Disable Print Styles
- Display Alt Attributes
- Display Div Order
- Display Element Information
- Display Line Guides
- Display Object Information
- Display Ruler
- Display Stack Levels
- Display Table Depth
- Display Table Information
- Display Title Attributes
- Edit HTML
- Enable Form Fields
- Make Frames Resizable
- Make Images Full Size
- Outline All Images
- Outline Background Images
- Outline External Links
- Outline Headings
- Outline Positioned Elements
- Show Hidden Elements
- Show Window Chrome
- Small Screen Rendering
- View Anchor Information
- View Color Information
- View Document Outline
- View Document Size
- View Generated Source
- View Meta Tag Information
'Display CSS By Media Type' now supports persisting
Fixed bugs:
- 'Convert GETs To POSTs' did not work when a form does not specify a method
- 'Disable Images' did not work in Firefox 1.5
- 'Display CSS By Media Type' broke print preview
- 'Display CSS By Media Type' ignored stylesheets with no specified media type
- 'Display Id & Class Details' did not show id attributes for tables
- 'Display Image Dimensions' did not work with images without dimension attributes in the HTML
- 'Edit CSS' did not take the media attribute of a style sheet into account
- 'Edit CSS' did not work with background images that are linked relative to the CSS in documents served with an HTML mime type
- 'Edit CSS' polling is not disabled when the interval is set to zero
- 'Enable Auto Completion' only checked for auto completion being disabled on forms not form elements
- 'Find Broken Images' did not work properly when the cache is disabled
- Keyboard shortcuts could not be empty
- Keyboard shortcuts for a feature still worked when the feature was disabled
- Options dialog lost values after resetting
- 'Outline Tables' and 'Outline Table Cells' did not work with tables with border collapse turned on
- Switching to an alternate style sheet was not reflected in the CSS features
- The browser position changed when resizing
- Toggling the toolbar from the keyboard shortcut behaved differently to toggling the toolbar from the 'View' menu
- 'Validate Local HTML' did not handle character encoding correctly
- 'Validate Local HTML' froze the browser when used on a page entirely generated by document.write()
- 'View Cookie Information' did not take the cookie path into account
- 'View CSS' only displayed the first of multiple imported style sheets
- 'View Form Information' did not display image input elements
- 'View Image Information' did not display images on input elements
- 'Visited Links' toggled the link status rather than changing it
Improved the 'Display Form Details' feature:
- Checkbox and radio button values are now displayed
Improved the 'View Form Information' feature:
- Added maxlength and size
- Added the element index
- Checkbox and radio button state are now displayed
Improved the 'View Source' feature:
- Added a menu for frames
- Added support for viewing the source in an external editor
Improved the resize features:
- Added support for wildcards which do not change that dimension in 'Custom Size'
- Added viewport options
Improved the view information results:
- Added support for disabling the tidying of the view information results
- Added support for sorting the view information result tables by column
Optimized the code
Removed the 'W3C Documents'
Replaced 'Display Link Paths' feature with 'Display Link Details'
Replaced the 'Outline Selected Element' feature with 'Outline Current Element'
Toolbar menus now work like the Bookmarks Toolbar
'Validate Feed' now uses the W3C validator
'View Image Information' now displays alt and title attributes
Tidied the menus
Various minor code fixes