Toolbar Tips

Microsoft has a web developer toolbar available for IE, designed to help web professionals analyze, develop, and debug web pages.

According to the Microsoft Website, the toolbar has the following features:

• Examine and modify the document object model of a Web page.
• Locate and select specific elements on a Web page.
• Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
• View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
• Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
• Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS Web feed links.
• Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
• Resize the browser window to a specific screen size.
• Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
• Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
• Display a fully featured design ruler to help align objects on the page

Tools like this have been available as Firefox extensions for as long as Firefox has been around. Microsoft seems to be playing catchup with this and the features of their new IE7 Beta.