The CSS Weblog has compiled a list of the top nine must-have (free) Firefox extensions for Web Developers.

My three favorites:

Web Developer - A collection of useful tools for manipulating cookies, style sheets, forms, images, and so forth.

MeasureIt - A very handy tool that, once activated via a button at the bottom of your browser, allows you to click and drag a selection around any item in the browser while it reads you out the dimensions.

ColorZilla - A great eyedropper tool for grabbing the hex values for any color in a page.

Read the full list here.

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Albino Blacksheep has posted a great step-by-step tutorial that illustrates the basics of CSS. As you click through each step the author shows the results of adding a series of styles via an external CSS file.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/livedesign/

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I recently discovered this new polling widget via Guy Kawasaki’s blog so I thought I would try it out with a little poll about product workflows between Adobe tools.

As you might imagine, one of the big things that we’ll be focusing on for the next release of Flash, code-named “BLAZE”, is product integration with other Adobe tools - most importantly, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and Flex Builder 2. I thought it would be interesting to see which of these workflows you think we should spend the most time improving.

Good luck!

I’ve been doing a lot of research on feature priorities for the next release of Flash, BLAZE, and I’ve been seeing a lot of positive feedback on Grant Skinner’s gProject extension.

I decided to check it out and see what the hooplah was all about. Here’s a quick summary of the extension.

From the product page:

The gProject panel is a robust replacement for the (rather anaemic) project panel built into Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 Professional. It incorporates a myriad of time-saving features in a tight, easy to use package.

Basically, gProject provides most of the key functionality that the built-in Project panel is missing.

Key features:
- Add all files in a given directory to the project automatically
- Access multiple projects from a drop-down menu
- Automatically open previous project on launch
- Right-click context menu on files
- Multi-mode “Test project” functionality
- Misc utility functions
- Assign keyboard shortcuts to gProject panel functionality
- Create new classes based on custom templates
- Unit testing

Read the full feature list here.

When I installed it and started playing around with it I was amazed at how rich the functionality was. I didn’t know the JSAPI provided such a deep level of access to the tool’s functionality.

My favorite feature is perhaps the simplest of the list, the ability to just point at a directory and have the project panel automatically addall of the files into the project. I’d like to do this in the Project Panel for the next release but I’m struggling with prioritizing Project Panel enhancements over all of the other great things we’re working on. Believe it or not, simple-sounding features like this take up a significant amount of time when you factor in QA testing, documentation, localization, UI work, etc, etc. That said, we may find a way to get it in there.

However, it is not likely that we’ll go to the full extent that Grant has done with gProject so - if you’re looking for rich functionality in the project panel, I’d recommend giving this extension a try.

One of my friends just sent me a link to this humorous promo targetted at the young “MySpace” crowd (is that Generation Y or Z?).

Funny promo and yet another example of mega-campaigns relying on the great experience of Flash video instead of those other guys.

http://www.dellditty.com/

* Note: my use of the expression “iPod killer” is my opinion, not that of Dell (as far as I know).

I’ve turned comments back on but I now require registration in order to post a comment.

I’ve decided to require registration in order to comment on my blog due to overwhelming comment spam. I have comments turned off until MoveableType’s TypeKey service goes back online (it’s down right now).