Software Update: Web Developer 1.0

André points us to a new version of Web Developer Extension. The program was upgraded to version number 1.0 just before the turn of the year. Web Developer Extension is an extension for Mozilla, Firefox and Flock and adds a toolbar in the browser with various web developer tools. The 1.0 version of the program is from this page for the three browsers, as well as the localized versions. Below is the changelog published for version 1.0. An overview of all changes can be found in this document:

Version 1.0

• Added a ‘Help’ link
• Added an option for hiding the informational dialogs
• Added an option to open the DOM Inspector in the sidebar
• Added an option to open the JavaScript console in the sidebar
• Added confirmation dialogs for all the permanent clearing and deleting features
• Added support for changing the generated text size
• Added support for configuring the ‘Validate Local HTML’ and ‘Validate Local CSS’ settings
• Added support for easier toggling of ‘Show element names when outlining elements’
• Added support for Flock
• Added support for opening the page in another application
• Added support for retrieving file contents from the cache rather than a new request
• Added the features:
  • AddCookie
  • Clear All Private Data
  • Convert Select Elements To Text Inputs
  • Delete Path Cookies
  • Disable External Site Images
  • Disable meta redirects
  • Disable Minimum Font Size
  • Disable Print Styles
  • Display Alt Attributes
  • Display Div Order
  • Display Element Information
  • Display Line Guides
  • DisplayObjectInformation
  • Display Ruler
  • Display Stack Levels
  • Display Table Depth
  • Display Table Information
  • Display Title Attributes
  • EditHTML
  • Enable Form Fields
  • Make Frame Resizable
  • Make Images Full Size
  • Outline All Images
  • Outline Background Images
  • Outline External Links
  • Outline Headings
  • Outline Positioned Elements
  • Show Hidden Elements
  • Show Window Chrome
  • Small Screen Rendering
  • View Anchor Information
  • View Color Information
  • View Document Outline
  • View Document Size
  • View Generated Source
  • View Meta Tag Information
• ‘Display CSS By Media Type’ now supports persisting
• fixed bugs:
  • ‘Convert GETs To POSTs’ did not work when a form does not specify a method
  • ‘Disable Images’ did not work in Firefox 1.5
  • ‘Display CSS By Media Type’ broke print preview
  • ‘Display CSS By Media Type’ ignored stylesheets with no specified media type
  • ‘Display Id & Class Details’ did not show id attributes for tables
  • ‘Display Image Dimensions’ did not work with images without dimension attributes in the HTML
  • ‘Edit CSS’ did not take the media attribute of a style sheet into account
  • ‘Edit CSS’ did not work with background images that are linked relative to the CSS in documents served with an HTML mime type
  • ‘Edit CSS’ polling is not disabled when the interval is set to zero
  • ‘Enable Auto Completion’ only checked for auto completion being disabled on forms not form elements
  • ‘Find Broken Images’ did not work properly when the cache is disabled
  • Keyboard shortcuts could not be empty
  • Keyboard shortcuts for a feature still worked when the feature was disabled
  • Options dialog loses values ​​after resetting
  • ‘Outline Tables’ and ‘Outline Table Cells’ did not work with tables with border collapse turned on
  • Switching to an alternate style sheet was not reflected in the CSS features
  • The browser position changed when resizing
  • Toggling the toolbar from the keyboard shortcut behaved differently to toggling the toolbar from the ‘View’ menu
  • ‘Validate Local HTML’ did not handle character encoding correctly
  • ‘Validate Local HTML’ froze the browser when used on a page entirely generated by document.write()
  • ‘View Cookie Information’ did not take the cookie path into account
  • ‘View CSS’ only displayed the first of multiple imported style sheets
  • ‘View Form Information’ did not display image input elements
  • ‘View Image Information’ did not display images on input elements
  • ‘Visited Links’ toggled the link status rather than changing it
• Improved the ‘Display Form Details’ feature:
  • Checkbox and radio button values ​​are now displayed
• Improved the ‘View Form Information’ feature:
  • Added max length and size
  • Added the element index
  • Checkbox and radio button state are now displayed
• Improved the ‘View Source’ feature:
  • Added a menu for frames
  • Added support for viewing the source in an external editor
• Improved the resize features:
  • Added support for wildcards which do not change that dimension in ‘Custom Size’
  • Added viewport options
• Improved the view information results:
  • Added support for disabling the tidying of the view information results
  • Added support for sorting the view information result tables by column
• Optimized the code
• Removed the ‘W3C Documents’
• Replaced ‘Display Link Paths’ feature with ‘Display Link Details’
• Replaced the ‘Outline Selected Element’ feature with ‘Outline Current Element’
• Toolbar menus now work like the Bookmarks Toolbar
• ‘Validate Feed’ now uses the W3C validator
• ‘View Image Information’ now displays alt and title attributes
• Tidied the menus
• Various minor code fixes

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