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So long Firebug. It was like Christmas when we first saw what you did for us.
by donbronson 13y ago
So long Firebug. It was like Christmas when we first saw what you did for us.
- sgarrity 13y agoI'm glad to see Firebug being replace with a more modern set of tools, but you're right - Firebug (and the webkit devtools that followed from it) is/was amazing. It was probably the most significant change in front-end web development I've experienced in my 15ish year career.
- mattmanser 13y agoXMLHttpRequest was released by MS in IE 5 in 1999, which is less than 15 years ago. I'd say that the development of ajax was far more significant than some dev tools. And as a slight nitpick, the IE Dev toolbar came out about 6 months before Firebug and as best I can remember actually had more functionality than Firebug for quite a while. It's some sort of persistent web developer myth that Firebug came first. Firebug was just easier to find/install, you had to know that the IE6 developer toolbar existed. NB: I hate IE as much as the next web dev, but credit where credit's due...