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FireDiff - track changes to a page's DOM and CSS

48 points| bisceglie | 17 years ago |incaseofstairs.com | reply

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[+] thorax|17 years ago|reply
Yeah, this is awesome if nothing else for giving me a tool to see what I've tweaked/played with when using the Firebug CSS editor to play with my site's styling. This should become a default addition to Firebug.
[+] vegashacker|17 years ago|reply
Can the editors add an apostrophe to "pages"? Apologies in advance for my insanity, but I really did trip over this headline and had to re-read.
[+] bobzimuta|17 years ago|reply
This is fantastic. The only thing I'd like to see from this is optionally automatically store the changes across page loads, however not applying them unless a button is clicked.

The use case is those times when you have made the magical combination of css/dom changes to fix a bug and accidentally refresh the page, losing all that work. Just having the diff available after refresh would be great.

[+] chops|17 years ago|reply
This is fully awesome, though I guess I should upgrade to Firebug 1.4. It doesn't seem to work on 1.3.3 at all (though I may be missing something). And I know it says it requires/recommends 1.4, I just thought I'd mention it for anyone running FB 1.3.3
[+] bisceglie|17 years ago|reply
doesn't quite look ready for prime-time... but it's something for which i've been waiting to see, with no time to build it myself. firebug 1.4 should also be awesome when the beta drops (hopefully soon?).
[+] johns|17 years ago|reply
The page states a requirement for Firebug 1.4
[+] mr_justin|17 years ago|reply
Haven't tried it yet, but I would imagine those are some very expensive events to be observing for.
[+] nickb|17 years ago|reply
It's cool but I can't think of a case to use it for. What problem does this solve?
[+] cakeface|17 years ago|reply
Firebug lets you change CSS and HTML and displays the result immediately on your screen. Sometimes with a strange display bug I'll go through and make a number of CSS changes until some combination of them have magically fixed my bug. This plugin will tell me everything that I've done so that I can make the necessary changes to the actual files.