Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

HTML & CSS Reference plug-in for Firefox

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Feb 5, 20091 min

Firescope is a free HTML & CSS Reference plug-in for Firefox

Matt Mickiewicz of SitePoint, publishers of some interesting technical books, including Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! (see my review here) writes:

You might be interested in our HTML & CSS Reference plug-in for Firefox:

https://tools.sitepoint.com/firescope.

It provides detailed browser compatibility information, and example code, on every HTML & CSS element from within Firefox. It’s completely free as well.

Cheers,

Matt

I might indeed. You might, too.

Installing this led me to go and fix Firebug, which wasn’t showing me styles. The fix was to uninstall and reinstall Firefox – yes, the whole browser, not the debugger that was exhibiting the problem. Go figure.

I found Firescope somewhat useful, but often too elementary. When I look up an HTML tag, what I really want to know is all the attributes, styles, and events that apply to that tag, as well as information about what browsers do and don’t support each one. Firescope only gives me the basic information, but the price is right.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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