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Mozilla Firebird has become my new favorite toy. It is the new lightweight browser. It is similar to Netscape and Mozilla 1.4 but without all the extra junk that no one really needs. Add in the PNH Developer Toolbar and the Web Developer’s Toolbar, you’ve got a fabulous utility for developing websites. These two toolbars come with many of the same features, but each has it’s own unique tools as well. One tool I especially like is the ability to remove or disable style sheets. Yes, you can verify that your pages look ok even with the stylesheets removed. The Web Developer’s Toolbar, comes with the capabilities to resize the browser window. It has standard 800×600 and 1024×768 or you can set a custom size.

Viewing the stylesheets or the page source, opens it up in a new tab. If you select to view the stylesheets, it pulls them straight from the page and displays them all. Above each one will show the url of that stylesheet. A very handy tool.

Both toolbars include extensive validation links, which also open in a new tab. Very convenient. I also like the outline features, which allow you to outline block level elements or table elements, so you can view placement. If you’d like to see how your page looks without the images, disable them or remove them, just like the stylesheets.

The PNH toolbar also includes an extensive list of links for most of the standards documentation…such as W3C’s docs for HTML, CSS, XHTML and DOM specifications. All of this right at the click of your mouse…what more could you need.