Two New Tools for Web Dev
May 29th, 2008 | Published in JavaScript/Ajax, Jquery, Web Development
IETester was just released, this tool looks to be incredibly handy. Right now it’s in Alpha, but I’m still planning on using it. Previously I used Multiple IE, but I found that to be a little buggy and prone to not work at all at times. I’m planning on giving it a try sometime today, maybe it will solve at least some problems on testing with IE.
A little late, but Google released an API for loading common JS libraries (such as JQuery, Prototype, Mootools, etc.) from their network of CDNs. This will also increase the chances of someone having the common library cached, instead of having to download an individual copy of JQuery for each site they visit. It’s not a new idea, AOL has hosted the Dojo JS library on it’s CDN for the past few years (more details). Still, I’m glad to see it expand into other libraries. I will probably move StartupIndex.ca to load the JQuery library from Google.

