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Web Developer 1.1 for Firefox

Web Developer, ironically, it's probably one my favorite Firefox extensions... it's up there right next to Firebug. They released a new version (1.1), which contains tons of nice features... one that I've been wanting for a while is collapsable JavaScript files view. Here's a list of the new features with this release.

  • Add a status icon that indicates whether there are CSS errors on the page
  • Add close buttons to all the extension toolbars
  • Add support for displaying the compressed and uncompressed file sizes in 'View Document Size'
  • Add support for entering the ruler dimensions for the 'Display Ruler' feature
  • Add support for explaining why certain features are unavailable
  • Add support for saving the viewport resizing option
  • Add support for the 'ping' attribute to 'Display Link Details'
  • Add support for using multiple Web Developer sidebars at the same time
  • Add the features
    • Disable Proxy
    • Disable Strict JavaScript Warnings
    • Display Abbreviations
    • Display Page Magnifier
    • Display Page Validation
    • Outline Images With Oversized Dimensions
    • Outline Links With Ping Attributes
    • Outline Table Captions
    • Validate Local Accessibility
  • Change the JavaScript status icon when JavaScript is disabled
  • Improve the 'Edit CSS' feature
    • Add Mozilla/Seamonkey support
    • Add search functionality
  • Improve the 'Edit HTML' feature
    • Add Mozilla/Seamonkey support
    • Add search functionality
  • Improve the 'View Cookie Information' feature
    • Add support for deleting cookies
    • Add support for editing cookies
  • Improve the 'View Style Information' feature
    • Add support for syntax highlighting
    • Allow the path to the highlighted element to be copied
  • Improve the design of the output of the features
  • Tons of Bug Fixes.

jQuery v1.1 beta released today

jQuery v1.1 beta was released today and final release is scheduled for this w/e -- how exciting! Since they streamlined the API to massively improve speed, they also released a back-compatibility plugin so you can easily just drop this new API to upgrade.

John Resig also blogged about the new selector speed and compared it to Jack Slocum's new DOMQuery.

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