From redemption in a blog:

If you’re doing web development or design of any sort, you have to check out Joe Hewitt’s talk on Firebug at Yahoo! - download the movie or watch it online, just make sure you watch it.

If you aren’t already using Firebug, this will convince you. If you are, you’ll probably find some gems in there that you didn’t know before. I didn’t know that you could log events to elements on the fly, or press the up and down arrow keys to adjust numerical values (such as margins and paddings), or edit the values in the box model layout diagram, or hover over variable names to see a tooltip of their values in the JavaScript debugger, or conditional breakpoints.

If you’re doing any sort of web development work and not using Firebug, get it now! It’s extremely powerful, and should be part of every web developer’s toolkit.  This tool alone is a big reason to use Firefox, as there’s nothing that comes even close to this for Internet Explorer.

The video is a little blocky – even the downloadable version, which weighs in at 128mb, though it’s an interesting presentation and worth watching.  Watching it, I realised I’ve only used a fraction of what Firebug has to offer.

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