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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Feb 28, 2002 10:44AM

Mark,

A few other "on-the-fly" tools I have found useful:

The Web Design Group: www.htmlhelp.com;
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/widgets/

I like their on-line validator over the W3C simply for it's output. Even
better though is a series of small shell script tools they refer to as
WiDGets. These little apps add right click functionality to IE 4 and up
browser (IE only), whereby you can strip a document of a) it's images, b)
it's style sheet, c) automaticly send the page contents to the WDG on-line
validator. As an added bonus, my weapon of choice (HomeSite) uses the IE
rendering agent in it's preview mode, which allows me to extend this right
click functionality into the authoring environment. There are other WiDGets
available for download, but these 3 are IMHO the most useful

Microsoft: Web Accessories for Internet Explorer 5:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.asp

More right-click functionality for IE. While they claim it does not work in
IE 6, some of the features in fact do. I like and use the following: "Open
Frame in New Window", "Links List", "Image List". Again, integrates into
HomeSite's preview pane as well.

Microsoft: Web Developer Accessories:
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/previous/webaccess/webdevaccess.asp

My right click button gets as much of a workout as my left click button.
The DOM tree tool lets you view all the Document Object Model properties in
tree form via right click or the tools menu. There is also the ability to
"spot check" source code by highlighting the code in the browser,
rightlclick and view partial source code. Very cool.


JF


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