The JavaScript Blog » Reviews http://thejavascriptblog.com Everything JavaScript Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:05:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Developer Tools In Safari http://thejavascriptblog.com/developer-tools-in-safari/ http://thejavascriptblog.com/developer-tools-in-safari/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:15:35 +0000 Merrick Christensen http://thejavascriptblog.com/?p=76 For a long time I was using Firefox just for Firebug. You know, sort of like when two people stay married for the kid. I was sick and tired of how Firefox rendering looked, hard to explain just not quite as smooth. When Chrome for Mac was released in the beta phases I was stoked… Until I saw the UI, now this is debatable but I would much rather have the looks of Safari then Chrome any day. All I really wanted was a good inspector and some nice things from the web developer toolbar.

Enter Safari Developer Tools

Why did no one tell me about this soon? Everyone needs to know safari comes with a beautiful inspector (just like chromes – webkit) and some handy disabling tools. The thing is they aren’t on by default. To turn them on all you need to do is go to :

Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Show develop menu in menu bar

You get some nice things like User-Agent changing, Snippet Editors, Console Logging, Inspector, and much more.

Goodbye Firefox. It was good while it lasted, but we both know this relationship has been over for a long time.

]]> http://thejavascriptblog.com/developer-tools-in-safari/feed/ 0 WTFramework – Detect Which Framework A Site Is Using, The Easy Way http://thejavascriptblog.com/wtframework-detect-which-framework-a-site-is-using-the-easy-way/ http://thejavascriptblog.com/wtframework-detect-which-framework-a-site-is-using-the-easy-way/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:20:02 +0000 Merrick Christensen http://thejavascriptblog.com/?p=71 WTFramework Summary

WTFramework is a dead simple, and well designed way to detect which framework a site is using as well as version. Being primarily a JavaScript developer I was always looking through the source to find which framework a certain site was using. Or to see if the developer had done something particularly cool with my favorite framework MooTools.

It was developed by Oskar Krawczyk and is implemented as a bookmark for any A grade browser. You simply drag it into your bookmarks bar and its installed. You can now use it on any site you visit. The notifications are “Growl” like and are very well designed.

Kudos to Oskar on this one, a dead simple, but time saving tool.

Installation

  1. Visit The Site
  2. Drag the big red icon into your bookmarks.
  3. It is now installed.

Fortunately For Us

Oskar has a public Git Hub repository for this. So if needs be you can change it to suit your needs.

Gallery

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