There are 2 really good ones that you left out. ColorZilla, and MeasureIt. I found these 2 an excellent addition to my extension tool box!

--rasta 00:22, 11 December 2007 (MST)

Thanks rasta!

I'll definitely give ColorZilla and Measureit a try.

Thanks for the tip!

--Jimbojw 06:00, 11 December 2007 (MST)

I haven't used View Source Chart, but do use HTML Validator which validates the page when you view the source. If you have to support IE clients, one of the IE View addons is a necessity.

--Rich LaMarche 08:43, 11 December 2007 (MST)

I also use Cookiepie, witch is very usefull to debug your sessions.

--Brutuscat 09:45, 11 December 2007 (MST)

You left out the best feature of View Source Chart: it shows you the DOM after JavaScript has messed with it, so you can see the final rendered DOM--not just the source of the HTML doc. That's really helpful if you do a lot of DOM scripting.

--Dave McFarland 10:25, 11 December 2007 (MST)

Hi Rich,

I haven't had a need yet to use HTML Validator since Web Developer has a validation option in the toolbar.

One nicety of HTML Validator would be that it can re-validate a page after JavaScript DOM manipulation. Thanks for the tip!

--Jimbojw 10:34, 11 December 2007 (MST)

Hi Dave,

Good point! I neglected to mention that View Source Chart shows the rendered DOM tree, not just the initially loaded tree.

That said, I personally rarely use View Source Chart for this purpose however, instead relying on Firefox's innate ability to View Selection Source (right-click on a selected body of text to see this option).

Another extension I used to use which provides the same functionality is View Formatted Source, but since I discovered Firebug's HTML viewer and DOM inspector functions, I haven't needed it.

--Jimbojw 10:42, 11 December 2007 (MST)