Firebug Lite - New Features

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On Bug Fix: Killed the IE closure bug once and for all. The problem came from the mouse connection to the "splitter". This was apparently a feature that was never fully implemented (there's no splitter!), and it's partial coding connected mouse movements to IE's main window and wreaked havoc. I deleted all of the splitter code.

New Features:

Added a tabbed UI to the toolbar

• Added the Object Tab, and no longer clear the object upon closing the object inspector.
• Added the DOM Tab; when selected, mousing on the main window will show the DOM node(s), in the DOM inspector and give them a blue border in the main window. Clicking freezes the selection. Note this is a fairly simplistic implementation, purposefully. The only real use for this is IE6, since all other browsers have tools for this.
• Added ReCSS - Pardon me while I pat myself on the back for doing the obvious and sticking this bit of code in here and adding ReCSS's fantastic functionality to non FF browsers.
• Moved the Clear button to the end. This maybe isn't great since it isn't the same location as Firebug Sr. The tabs maybe should be re-ordered.

Improved Object Inspector

• Objects are now display in a standard, indented, comma-delineated, JavaScript? format instead of that crazy made-up stuff I was doing before.
• DOM nodes are now links, and when clicked, open in the object inspector (they should probably open in the DOM inspector, but hey, maybe later)
• Stringifying date objects. Another easy one.
• console.dir - changed this to trace the object with printObject(), but inline in the console.

Note: Most of this had been implemented weeks and months ago on my current work project, so it should be relatively bug free.

Mike Wilcox - mwilcox (at) sitepen (dot) com

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Firebug js file

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Firebug CSS file

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Tab Images

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Test file with CSS for testing ReCSS

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My email is (dot) COM not dot som.

After writing the comments, I went back and changed the code for the tabs and made it more versatile. The tab order can now be more easilly be rearranged (in code), and I in fact did so. It more closely resembles FB Sr. FB Sr. has two rows though, so there's only so much that can be done without implementing two rows.

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fixed in [13468]

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(In [13469]) fixing mixing variable. Refs #6619. !strict