1. State of Developer Tools
Ben Galbraith
Director of Developer Relations, Palm
Former Director of Developer Tools, Mozilla

8. Huge Deployment
Huge Developer Base
No Vendor Control

9. Microsoft Internet
powered by Microsoft Windows Advanced Frickin Server

11. >90%

13. Use FB wall, msgs, etc. as
an example
Twitter as the opposite
More choices make us less happy.
‒ Barry Schwartz
The Paradox of Choice

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IE6 Prototype Java Rails ActiveRecord Oracle
IE7 Dojo Ruby ASP.NET Hibernate PostgreSQL
IE8 Scripty C# Grails SQL MySQL
Firefox Scripty 2 Python Struts EJB 3 SQL Server
Chrome MooTools Perl Struts 2 LINQ Cassandra
Safari YUI 2 C++ JSF iBATIS BigTable
Opera YUI 3 VB.NET Tapestry ADO.NET Hypertable
SproutCore PHP Django CouchDB
Cappuccino Groovy Grok MongoDB
qooxdoo Clojure Pylons Dynamo
MochiKit Scala TurboGears
jQuery ActionScript web2py
Ext JS Zope
Spry GWT
BackBase Spring
Echo
WebWork
Wicket
RIFE
Flex
Merb
Ramaze
Catalyst
Gantry
Jifty
CGI::App
WebGUI

20. 1.0 Beta Alph
a
Beta
Chrome s V8 Safari s SquirrelFish Extreme Firefox s TraceMonkey Opera's Carakan

22. Firebug
By Joe Hewitt
Yes, that Joe Hewitt

24. Console

25. HTML Inspector

26. Style Inspector

27. Layout Inspector

28. Script Debugging

29. Script Profiler

30. Object Inspector

31. Network Profiler

32. Network Profiler

33. Network Profiler

34. Firebug Plug-ins
YSlow, FirePHP, Pixel Perfect, Firebug Code Coverage, FireUnit

37. V8 JSON Debugging Protocol
Scope Debugging Protocol
Crossfire Debugging Protocol
Google Group: WebDebugProtocol

38. dynaTrace

39. Internet Explorer 8
Developer Tools

40. HTML Inspector

41. Miscellaneous Goodies

42. Miscellaneous Goodies

43. Safari
Developer Tools

44. HTML Inspector

45. Network Profiler

46. Network Profiler

47. Database Inspector

48. Miscellaneous Goodies

49. Chrome
Developer Tools

51. Safari-ish Tools

52. Heap Explorer

53. Task Manager

54. Task Manager

55. Script Debugger

56. Opera Dragonfly
Developer Tools

57. HTML Inspector

58. Firebug Working Group

59. Atul Varma s Memory Profiler:

62. The Breakdown of Modern Web Development

64. Cappuccino

66. SproutCore

70. YUI CSS Grid Builder

72. Microsoft SuperPreview

73. Adobe BrowserLab

74. Style Master Free CSS Tools

75. Rule, Grid, and Crosshair
By Allen Jardine

78. TypeKit

80. 1
Browser
User Interface
X
2
Background
Thread

81. 1
Browser
User Interface
X
2
Web Workers
Background
Thread

82. Fluid Mozilla
Prism
Adobe AIR Appcelerator Titanium
PhoneGap Palm webOS

83. SpriteMe
By Steve Souders

84. Browserscope

85. Cuzillion
By Steve Souders

86. Open Web Tools Directory

87. Open Web Tools Directory

88. State of Developer Tools
Ben Galbraith
Twitter: bgalbs
ben@galbraiths.org