PeteL's Blog : IE AddOns

Web Tools Or Tools For Web People

PeteL — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:22:16 GMT

A couple of days ago, I got an email from the guys at DebugBar letting me know that they had just released their Beta1 for Debug Bar 5.0. They've got a pretty good tool bar for doing web design and web development in IE. Their DebugBar adds features like a DOM Inspector, an HTTP Inspector, a JavaScript Console and Inspector, an HTML Validator among other things. It's free for personal use, and the commercial license is easy to obtain.

There are a couple of other tools worth pointing out as well

Fiddler2 a web debugging proxy written by one of the PM's on the IE team
IE Developer Tool Bar the Microsoft IE Developer Toolbar. There's lots of info on it here
IE6 and IE7 Virtual PC images
Visual Web Developer Express 2008 has great JavaScript debugging features
AjaxView a great tool from MS Research for remotely monitoring web2.0 applications for doing perf work
Nikhil's Web Development Helper is an add-on that helps AJAX and ASP.NET developers see what is going on with their code

Hope this helps!

PEte

IE, Firefox and Opera On Stage Together

PeteL — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:52:00 GMT

I often forget to blog about some of the cool events I attend until it's a little too late, but hey, better than blogging about it after the fact, when people can't even try to show up right?

Tomorrow, Chris Wilson and I are headed down to San Jose for an event put on by the Silicon Valley Web Builders for a session that they're calling Browser Wars: Episode II Attack of the DOMs. Beside the name being something that bugs me a bit, this is going to be a fantastic event!

This is one of the few times that Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera have been on stage together to talk about where the web goes next, and what their visions are for the future. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by what Chris has to say. Chris and I sat down on Monday to figure out what we were going to say, and what we wanted to get across for this event. We only have a 10 minute presentation. After each browser vendor has done their presentation, we move into a discussion.

I'm going to take my camera, and a video camera, and try to get a few video clips that we can put online, so keep an eye on my blog early next week for a summary and photos!

PS: we're still working on judging the entries for the IE add-on contest, and should have the results up Monday or Tuesday! Good luck to all who entered!

Edit: Fixed title

IE Web Designer and Web Developer Web Casts & Chats

PeteL — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:31:00 GMT

Before shipping IE7, we had regular “expert chats” where we provided you with an opportunity to ask questions and get more information about IE7 and its many features. Now that we’ve shipped, we’re going to start bringing back regular events for web developers and web designers. Every Thursday at 10am PST, we will be running either a web cast or web chat of some kind. The topics will range from CSS to RSS to HTML to AddOn Development, anything that you might find interesting. In fact, if you have any ideas, I encourage you to leave them as comments and we’ll try to arrange a webcast or chat around one[Kristen Kibble] of your suggestions. We’ll also make sure to vary the depth, for example, one week we may do an intro to a topic, and then a few weeks later, do a much deeper technical dive into that one area.

We’ve lined up speakers and sessions every Thursday through March 8th, and will schedule more in February once we’ve heard additional feedback from you.

Date	Type	Topic	Speakers	Registration Link
1/11/2007	Web Cast	Internet Explorer 7: An Overview	Chris Wilson	register
1/18/2007	Expert Chat	Web Design (CSS, HTML)	Markus Mielke, Dave Massy, Chris Wilson	register
1/25/2007	Web Cast	Adding RSS to your webiste	Walter VonKoch	register
2/1/2007	Web Cast	The Power of the IE add-ons	Jeremy Epling	register
2/8/2007	Web Cast	Help with Updating Your Pages To IE7	Markus Mielke	register
2/15/2007	Expert Chat	Add-on Development	Jeremy Epling, Eric Lawrence	register
2/22/2007	Web Cast	Creating Intranet Applications That Respect Protected Mode	Marc Silbey	register
3/1/2007	Web Cast	Building add-ons for IE	Eric Lawrence	register
3/8/2007	Web Cast	The IE Developer Toolbar	Arron Eicholtz	register

Thanks! And hope to see you at these sessions!

CSS Celebrates 10 years and Problems With BHOs & Tool Bars?

PeteL — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:53:00 GMT

We just moved into our new building here on campus (we moved from 42 (good) to 17 (not so good)). I've spent most of the day unpacking so far, and haven't gotten much else done yet. Though I'm back to a window office. I'm right at the edge here on getting a window office. I've been here 5.5 years, and 5 seems to be about the magic number for this tema. The question now becomes how long will I get to keep it until someone more senior comes along. In any event, this new building is interesting. The view out of my window is great, the fact that I CANNOT find the stairs for the life of me, drives me up the wall. I'm the kind of guy who doesn't like taking an elevator for less than 5 floors. I'm on the third, so I'd rather take the stairs. In this building, I've not been able to consistently find them yet. God forbid if there is a fire or anything like that, I'm screwed!

I also thought it would be neat to throw out a happy birthday to CSS! The W3C, in a press release today announced that CSS is now 10 years old. Very neat, though a little scary.

Also, I came across a blog post on Tony Schreiner's blog about problems with BHO's and Toolbars. If you're working on one, and you're running into problems, it might be worth checking out!

IE7 AddOn Contest Badges

PeteL — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:01:00 GMT

Want to help advertise the IE7 AddOn contest that's running right now? Then why don't you add a badge to your page?

Here's the source for each one, feel free to just link to them straight from my site if you'd like!