Mozilla Developer Tools
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There has been some talk about creating an "Official" suite of Mozilla Developer Tools. This page is intended to be used as a brainstorming "whiteboard" of sorts where we can all jot down and discuss ideas.
Contents
What sorts of Developer Tools might we want?
Design/Development
- User Agent emulation
- Color eyedropper (hex and rgb colors)
- include palette creator/colour blender
- Something that makes complex CSS positioning less painful
- JavaScript Snippet Sidebar
- reusable chunks of JS for common functions
- DOM manipulation
- visual effects (slides, fades, etc)
- AJAX methods (call server-side script, parse return object)
- reusable chunks of JS for common functions
- XUL Snippet Sidebar
- reusable chunks of XUL/JS for common UI elements
- UI controls
- wizard pages
- pref panels
- status bar notification widgetry
- reusable chunks of XUL/JS for common UI elements
- ???
Packaging
- XPI packaging tool
- maxversion modification tool
- ???
Debugging
- DOM Inspector
- JavaScript debugger
- JavaScript console
- AJAX Debugger (not sure if this one makes sense at all)
- HTTP Headers inspector/viewer
- ???
Site Testing
- Validation Tools (XHTML, HTML, CSS, RSS, RDF, etc)
- Browser feature disabler (Cookies, Cache, JavaScript, CSS, Images, Popups, etc.)
- Window resizer (640x480, 800x600, etc)
- AJAX latency emulator
- ???
Accessibility Testing
- Screen reader emulation
- Visual impairment emulation (colorblindness, screen zoom testing...)
- Accessibility rules validation
- ???
Libraries/Toolkits
- AJAX Toolkit
- DHTML Libraries
- ???
Optimization/Cleanup Tools
- CSS Inspector/Optimizer
- Markup tidy tool
- replace tabs with spaces
- close hanging tags (I'd imagine this to be hard)
- update depricated elements
- ???
Security
- Best practises & guidelines
- Pre-built SSL or crypto libraries for public use
- Penetration testing tools?
- ??
Reference
- Developer Reference Sidebar
- akin to the old DevEdge sidebar, we get this request at lot at MDC
- XHTML Reference
- CSS Reference
- XUL Reference
- akin to the old DevEdge sidebar, we get this request at lot at MDC
- ???
Existing Developer Tools
Provided as a reference/source of ideas:
- DOMi
- Venkman
- Web Developer Toolbar
- User Agent Switcher
- MeasureIt
- Live HTTP Headers
- Aardvark
- ColorZilla
- Fangs
- View Formatted Source
- View Rendered Source