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Microsoft's Developer Toolbar for IE

Posted Nov 3rd 2005 7:51AM by Michael Moncur

The Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox is one of the tools I use most often when developing web sites. I've often wished there was an IE version for testing sites in IE. Microsoft has granted my wish—they now offer a Developer Toolbar for IE. It works on IE 6.0 and later, and includes the following features similar to the Firefox toolbar:

View DOM: Opens a panel that allows viewing the DOM for the current page in a tree, similar to Firefox's DOM Inspector. Disable: Includes options to disable the cache, images, cookies, scripts, and IE's popup blocker. View: Displays class and ID information for page elements, link paths, tab indices, or access keys. Outline: Similar to my most-used feature on Firefox, outlines tables, DIVs, and other elements in pages. Validate: Pop-up links to various validation services. Images: Displays image dimensions and other details. Resize: Resizes the browser window to common sizes (800 x 600, etc.) Misc: Includes options to clear the cache for a domain, clear session cookies, etc. Show Ruler: Opens a pop-up ruler to measure page elements.

This toolbar has a way to go before it's as useful as the Firefox toolbar, but it's already a must-have tool for those of us who test sites in IE.

[Announcement at IEBlog - via Weblog Tools Collection]

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Fixing Blogger's spam flagging feature

Posted Nov 2nd 2005 2:00PM by Michael Moncur

In case you haven't heard, Google's Blogger.com has been having all kinds of problems with spam blogs created on their system. I'm not going to link to any, but thanks to various RSS search feeds, I find several of them a day.

Fortunately, Blogger has been dealing with the issue—they've added a "Flag" button at the top of every site where I can indicate that it contains spam or objectionable content. This worked well for a while—I flagged each one I found, and they were often taken offline the same day.

Unfortunately, the spam blogs have recently upped the ante. The last 10-20 spam blogs I've found are conspicuously missing the Flag button, and sure enough, I found a bit of JavaScript in each one:

document.getElementById('flagButton').style.display='none';

So, until Blogger provides a proper solution—such as a "report spam blogs by URLs" feature—I made a bookmarklet to re-enable the Flag button. Here's the link—just save it as a bookmark, and activate it while viewing a spam blog to reenable the button.

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JavaScript Shell updated to 1.4

Posted Nov 1st 2005 11:50PM by Michael Moncur

Jesse Ruderman has updated the JavaScript Shell tool / bookmarklet to version 1.4. The new version includes history navigation and some improvements to the built-in props function. Here's the announcement. Test the shell here or install the bookmarklet (Firefox only).

The JavaScript Shell is one of my essential JavaScript debugging tools. The bookmarklet version opens a shell in the context of the current page, so it's great for poking around other people's scripts, or debugging my own.

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ColourMod: DHTML Color picker

Posted Oct 31st 2005 7:35AM by Michael Moncur

So you're building a cool Web 2.0 app that will change the world in your spare time, but you need a simple and good-looking way for your users to choose colors? ColourMod has you covered. It's a drop-in DHTML component that pops up a nice Photoshop-style color picker.

The DHTML version of ColourMod is free of charge. There's also a Konfabulator version and a Dashboard version for web developers who need a quick way to pick Web colors, and an unbranded version for $15 that loses the ColourMod logo so you can pretend it's just another part of your fancy code.

[via SimpleBits]

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South by Southwest 2006 preview

Posted Oct 28th 2005 7:53AM by Michael Moncur

South by Southwest Interactive 2006 is scheduled for March 10-14 of next year. Register by November 18th at the discounted rate of $225—trust me, this is the best value you'll find in a tech conference. A couple of previews of next year's event from a JavaScript perspective:

Jeremy Keith has confirmed that he'll be speaking at next year's event. (See this interview) Steve Chipman of Slayeroffice will also be participating in a panel, although not on JavaScript. "How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards" will talk about how Steve and his cohorts got AOL (now this weblog's parent company) to accept Web standards. With Kevin Lawver and Kimberly Blessing also on the panel (among others) it should be great. Permalink Email this Linking Blogs Comments [1]

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