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Favelets and Bookmarklets for Web Development

Published on October 17, 2005 in Design, Firefox

A very useful tool for developing and testing web pages are so-called favelets or bookmarklets. A favelet is a small JavaScript program that is stored as a URL within a browser’s bookmark. A favelet operates like a normal bookmark. Clicking on the bookmark adds additional functionality to the browser such as changing the way a web page is displayed, viewing/editing CSS & scripts and validating the source of a page. Favelets are most helpful when developing with Internet Explorer but will also work in other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox (you will find much of what favelets can do already bundled into custom extensions for Mozilla Firefox).

While favelets do not seem to be used as heavily now, as in the past, probably due to the use of extensions in Mozilla Firefox and plugins/toolbars for other browsers they still have their place in the development environment. Below are some web development favelets I have found to be of some use.

  • Slayer Office Favlet Suite – Contains such favelets as a color list, document tree, ruler, and mouseover DOM inspector. This is the one set of favelets that I use in Mozilla Firefox.
  • Web Development Bookmarklets – These bookmarklets deal with source code, modifying & viewing CSS, and javascript
  • Favelets – Favelets for babelfish translations, screen sizing, and viewing html/css/images.
  • Accessibility-Checking Favelets – Favelets to help check the accessibility of a web page.

Treehouse Web Development Magazine

Published on October 5, 2005 in Design

A new magazine dedicated primarily to web development has just been launched by Particletree called Treehouse. The first edition is now available for free and includes essays on web related topics, a “roundup of links”, reviews, and resources for designers. Looks to be well designed with high quality content.

CSS Cheat Sheet

Published on October 2, 2005 in Design

This one page cheat sheet is intended for web developers who are new to CSS and want to have a quick look up guide for CSS related work.

CSS Cheat Sheet

Note: For a more full featured and advanced CSS cheat sheet see Dave Child’s CSS cheat sheet.

HTML Cheat Sheet

Published on in Design

This one page cheat sheet is intended for web developers who are new to HTML and want to have a quick look up guide to basic HTML tags and syntax.

HTML Cheat Sheet

Note: See my original post for more on this subject.

Java Syntax Cheat Sheet

Published on in Design

This one page cheat sheet is intended for programmers who are new to Java and want to have a quick look up guide to basic Java syntax.

Java Syntax Cheat Sheet

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Leslie Franke:[les-lee fran-key]; 1. Husband and proud dogowner; 2. Seventh-day Adventist; 3. Web Designer; 4. Atlanta Braves Fan; 5. Northeast Ohio Native; 6. Bottle Caps Lover; 7. Certified 'Freakonomic';