Quickduck

One of my all time favourite features about FireFox is the Web Developer Toolbar, which makes life much simpler when you’re trying to figure out problems with your web pages. Up until now, internet explorer hasn’t offered anything that’s quite so concise and easy to use, which makes FireFox the easy choice for web developers everywhere.

Well, now that Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 has been released, the choice is no longer so clear. IE8 now includes “Developer Tools” which, so far, look like an absolute gem.

So far, I’ve only played with the script debugger, which works pretty much as you would expect, and handily uses the same keyboard shortcuts as Visual Studio. The CSS debugger looks great too – you can selectively turn on/off different parts of your stylesheet using the checkbox next to each style declaration.

Though I’m still a long way off giving up FireFox, I’m happy to see that Internet Explorer is finally offering something that will at least tempt me to use it sometimes.