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0 pointsdubcanada12y ago0 comments

I fail to see how Firebug has a better UI then WebKit Developer Tools?

As far as I am concerned they are the same in that regard. And since both of those tools are not built by "developers", but by "frontend engineers" it doesn't really matter.

I spent like 15 minutes trying to figure out how to attach Firebug to the browser window. Only to find out that the upward pointing arrow in a gray circle means attach to browser window. On WebKit I click an icon that looks like a browser window with developer tools.

The resources tab in WebKit is ten times better then the mishmash of CSS/Script/Net/Cookies tabs all spread out.

Anyways that is just my opinion, and as far as I am concerned Dragonfly was the best.

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yogo12y ago

I guess it comes down to personal preference but I've always thought Firebug beats Elements and Resources in Chrome. It is much faster to filter with tabs than digging through a tree IMO.

actionscripted12y ago

Think what s/he's saying is that it helps that they use their own tools for UI dev versus those who hammer on the browser and made comparable tools, not that Firebug has a better UI.

dubcanadaOP12y ago

That's fine, but I think it's a bit far fetched to say that the people who work on WebKit/Blink developer tools don't use the developer tools.

paulirish12y ago

It's true.. the Chrome DevTools are a webapp, and the engineers behind it use the DevTools _on_ the DevTools as their primary means of development. (Enter inception joke here). From what I can tell, the same is true with the Safari Inspector and the IE F12 Tools.

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