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I don’t suppose that this is something that many people need to do, but just in case I thought I’d post this little code snippet (more…)

I’ve recently been trying to make some of my scripts work with Firefox 1.5 (from IE) and I was looking for some debugging help to set me on the right track. I found this tool which seems to work very well: http://getahead.ltd.uk/ajax/venkman.

It’s an updated version of Venkman fixed to work with Firefox 1.5.

One of the things it helped me find is that whereas in IE if I ask a table cell (TD) for the nextSibling and get the next TD, in Firefox you always seem to get a text node first and then the next TD. Similarly for getting the next and previous rows.

If you are doing web development for Internet Explorer, then have a look at this toolbar from Microsoft.

It provides all sorts of useful features: it’ll validate the HTML, show the sizes of images, where tables and cells and DIVs are, allow you to see the DOM and all sorts of other useful bits and pieces.

(Thanks to PCPro magazine for that tip! www.pcpro.co.uk)