Posted by Andy Dingley on 08/29/05 14:38

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:02:16 -0400, Gérard Talbot
<newsblahgroup@gtalbot.org> wrote:

>MeasureIt and Colorzilla are not useful: they duplicate what DOM
>inspector already does.

I've never used DOM Inspector for either of these. Although they
"duplicate the task", their interface is completely different. I usually
use them for measuring things like existing sites or design dummies
given to me as big bitmaps, where I later need to build a matching site.
For neither of these would the DOM Inspector be a good interface to use
- it's much easier with the direct screen-based interface of the simpler
tools.

>View Rendered Source is interesting for intermediary and advanced users:
>they show a graphical representation of the DOM containment hierarchy.

It's also useful for XSLT work, where it shows the results of a
client-side XSLT transform. Similarly for JavaScript and dynamically
modified pages.

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