As a web dev, I have no idea why anyone would need it. It too much and tbh pretty much everyone in the office think it is a nice gimmick, nothing more.
God if you can't visual a DOM tree in your head, you've got bigger problems.
What about a responsive design view? What about showing you the paints that are taking place as you play with the page?
Half the time if you write the page properly you don't need half of this stuff.
Also testing on devices is the only way to sanely test whether you layout works successfully.
Again, each browser has its own developer niceties in certain respects, and you should become familiar with them for the (probably rare) cases they're useful
I am familiar with them and Chrome is far more predictable and stable with regards to it's dev tools.
I don't have the JS breakpoints suddenly just stop work (aka Firebug), I don't have random times when the CSS doesn't load on the page.
There is a reason why people and devs have flocked to chrome. It is simply better.
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2009-08-18
As a web dev, I have no idea why anyone would need it. It too much and tbh pretty much everyone in the office think it is a nice gimmick, nothing more.
God if you can't visual a DOM tree in your head, you've got bigger problems.
Half the time if you write the page properly you don't need half of this stuff.
Also testing on devices is the only way to sanely test whether you layout works successfully.
I am familiar with them and Chrome is far more predictable and stable with regards to it's dev tools.
I don't have the JS breakpoints suddenly just stop work (aka Firebug), I don't have random times when the CSS doesn't load on the page.
There is a reason why people and devs have flocked to chrome. It is simply better.