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No, you're wrong. You weren't around obviously, so you probably don't know it was in Beta for donkeys. I actually remember first using it in 2006. Here's an ar

No, you're wrong. You weren't around obviously, so you probably don't know it was in Beta for donkeys. I actually remember first using it in 2006. Here's an article about the beta 1 refresh from Nov 2005, so it was out even earlier than that. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2005/11/01/487833.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2005/11/01/487833.aspx Your google-fu needs a lot of work as even my first search showed a lot of articles in 2006 and 2007 talking about the IE dev toolbar, e.g.: http://betanews.com/2007/05/10/microsoft-releases-ie-developer-toolbar/ http://betanews.com/2007/05/10/microsoft-releases-ie-develop... EDIT: Interestingly reading through some of the comments on the first post, it seems people claim the IE dev toolbar was inspired by http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ and the initial release date for the IE Dev toolbar was Sept 2005 (see http://c82.net/posts.php?id=23 http://c82.net/posts.php?id=23)

chc 13y ago
That is my recollection — the frustratingly hard-to-google Web Developer extension was the first thing along those lines I ever heard of. I continued using Web Developer for a long time after Firebug came out because I sort of wrote it off as a ripoff.
tanzam75 13y ago
The link for the IE Developer Toolbar in the original article carries a date of September 19, 2005 in the URL. Which makes sense, because it was demonstrated at PDC 2005, which was the previous week. Link: http://betanews.com/2005/09/19/microsoft-issues-ie-developer-toolbar/ http://betanews.com/2005/09/19/microsoft-issues-ie-developer... Note also that the release notes for Firebug v0.2 state: "This is a very early release - the code is only a few days old." Whereas the IE Developer Toolbar probably began a couple of months before its first release. So even by looking at the first mention on the web, we're comparing a days-old Firebug to a fairly-complete IE Developer Toolbar.

chc 13y ago

That is my recollection — the frustratingly hard-to-google Web Developer extension was the first thing along those lines I ever heard of. I continued using Web Developer for a long time after Firebug came out because I sort of wrote it off as a ripoff.

tanzam75 13y ago

The link for the IE Developer Toolbar in the original article carries a date of September 19, 2005 in the URL. Which makes sense, because it was demonstrated at PDC 2005, which was the previous week. Link: http://betanews.com/2005/09/19/microsoft-issues-ie-developer-toolbar/ http://betanews.com/2005/09/19/microsoft-issues-ie-developer... Note also that the release notes for Firebug v0.2 state: "This is a very early release - the code is only a few days old." Whereas the IE Developer Toolbar probably began a couple of months before its first release. So even by looking at the first mention on the web, we're comparing a days-old Firebug to a fairly-complete IE Developer Toolbar.