[TAG] 2-cent Tip: Web development bookmarklets

[Ben Okopnik]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:06:03PM -0700, Bradley Chapman wrote:
>
> Mr. Okopnik,
 
[blink] Am I being called on the carpet, or is this an official inquiry?
:) I understand your desire to be polite, Brad, but "politeness" =/=
"formality", which can make people uncomfortable. Since politeness is
supposed to be a social lubricant, I offer to you the thought that undue
formality may well be _impolite,_ given the above.

  "Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks;
  bleat in a flock of goats."
   -- Malayan Proverb

> --- Ben Okopnik <ben at callahans.org> wrote:
> > If you do any Web development, you know that one of the things you need
> > is to see your site at various resolutions.
 
[ snip ]

> You can also use the Web Developer Toolbar, which provides these bookmarklets
> as well as a whole host of other amazing features that should be useful to
> everyone.
> 
> http://chrispederick.myacen.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/
> 
> One of the most useful is a small icon which tells you if there are any
> JavaScript errors on a page. Very useful!

Hmm. I just tried installing it - it looked quite appealing - and got an
endless stream of "A Web site is requesting permission to install"
boxes, popping up at the rate of about one every 20 seconds, as well as
a progress bar that just sat there. Perhaps Mozilla needs to straighten
out their Web installation procedure, or Chris needs to offer the thing
as a tarball or something; I've had no luck with it.


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