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[egypturnash]

As I sit here working through the todo list for my site redesign, I'm mostly down to bug-fixing - there's a few bits of stuff to generate, a couple tiny bits of code I might like to add to the backend, some stuff I may delve into S2 for. I really wish Livejournal had regex available in S2 instead of having to use homebrew, interpreted search-and-replace hacks...

I've been using the handy Web Developer Extension for Mozilla for a while. It's a little on the sluggish side. But some Javascript debugging issues led me to Firebug, which... wow. It kicks the Web Dev extension's ass.

Also, I think I have found something that will obliviate any desire to install Windows as a life-support system for IE when I get around to getting an Intel Mac: IEs4Linux. WINE and some other hackery becomes an IE testbed. It seems to even make the process of having multiple versions of IE available for testing easy; I know this is a big hassle on actual Windows installs!

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[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

I imagine you already know about Drosera (http://webkit.org/blog/?p=61) for Safari? I think there are a couple of other web developer help tools for it too.

Anyway, I was wondering, do you actually use Firefox for common browsing or is this only for web development? I can't recall. It's awfully sluggish for me and I was wondering if you know something I don't. :)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know about it but I haven't really played with it - I haven't felt like living on the bleeding edge of the nightly builds. Half the time I just use the Webkit preview in Textmate anyway for an interactive css preview/edit cycle...

I don't use Firefox for anything but web dev and compatibility checking. And the occasional use for some esoteric function a Greasemonkey script makes possible. FF's performance on the Mac is not good compared to Safari, and it looks like a furshlugginer Windows refugee.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Drosera works with any WebKit application. Although, I imagine what they mean could be that it works with any application using the latest nightlies. I'll try it out later today and report to you if it works with vanilla Safari.

Interestingly, I've found that Firefox's performance on Linux is about the same as it is on OS X. That's why I always used Konqueror or Galeon.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I always had the impression that Drosera was a part of the cvs version of Safari. I've never really poked at it, so who knows?

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Looks like it does, in fact, attach only to applications using the CVS WebKit! Oh well, I tried, so I guess I know now.