DOM Inspectors for IE
Today a post in the IEBlog provides a number of 3rd. party DOM Inspectors for IE. They claim that they provide an open platform for 3rd. parties build their tools on top of IE versus Firefox way to provide a DOM Inspector out of the box. The reality is that Firefox also (and much more, because is Open Source) provides an open platform for creating plugins and extensions for Firefox. Additionally, half of the DOM Inspectors they list in their post are shareware (vs Open Source Firefox DOM Inspector and many others DOM Inspectors the community has built) and one of them actually isn’t a DOM Inspector, but an Accesibility Toolbar that provides very limited inspection capabilities.
Also in that post they minimize the need of a complete debugger. The debugger that Microsoft provides lacks a lot of functionality and reliability, for there are many cases (if you don’t use IIS as WebServer or AppServer) the debugger doesn’t get triggered.
