Weekend Links – Firebug Extensions, Updating Firefox Extensions, jQuery Puzzles, Digg/Google Sale

By David Walsh on July 26, 2008

The Fire Best Firebug Extensions

Firebug is a powerhouse in itself, but why not install some Firebug plugins to make it even more useful?

Have a Firefox plugin that you want to use in the newest version, but it isn't officially up to snuff? Here's how you can bypass that problem.

Have a picture you'd like to split into a puzzle? Try jqPuzzle, a jQuery puzzle.

Simply put, I think Digg needs to sell fast before the site loses its prestige. And now they've lost a potential sale to Google.

Amen to this system of variable naming. I agree with every one of these.

By David WalshMarch 11, 2013
An Interview with Eric Meyer
Your early CSS books were instrumental in pushing my love for front end technologies. What was it about CSS that you fell in love with and drove you to write about it? At first blush, it was the simplicity of it as compared to the table-and-spacer...
By David WalshSeptember 19, 2011
Introducing MooTools Templated
One major problem with creating UI components with the MooTools JavaScript framework is that there isn't a great way of allowing customization of template and ease of node creation. As of today, there are two ways of creating: new Element Madness The first way to create UI-driven...

By David WalshJuly 28, 2013
Create a CSS Cube
CSS cubes really showcase what CSS has become over the years, evolving from simple color and dimension directives to a language capable of creating deep, creative visuals. Add animation and you've got something really neat. Unfortunately each CSS cube tutorial I've read is a bit...
By David WalshJanuary 2, 2013
afterscriptexecute Event
Fellow Mozillian Daniel Buchner, curator of the X-Tag project and clever developer who showed us how to detect dom node insertions using CSS animations, recently showed me a new JavaScript feature I'd never heard of: the SCRIPT element's afterscriptexecute event.

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Didn’t even know you could use extensions in Firebug; extensions within an extension, crazy. I agree 100% about Digg – they need to act sooner than later.