X-Ray Extension Updated

by Stuart Robertson on February 12th, 2006 | designmeme

For everyone who has been patiently waiting for the X-Ray extension to be updated to work with Firefox 1.5.0.1—here it is! This new version includes several enhancements:

  • Support for a wider range of XHTML elements
  • Can now be toggled on and off without reloading the page
  • No longer interferes with the keyboard shortcut to cut text

Install Extension Install X-Ray Extension for Firefox

Thanks to all the people who emailed with suggestions for improvements or offered code optimizations. “joh6nn” and “dragonchaos” deserve special acknowledgement for their help.

Donations to The X-Ray Tip Jar are greatly appreciated.

Features to be added in future versions:

  • display self terminating tags correctly
  • identify deprecated elements
  • identify elements incorrectly placed on the page (head content inside the body)
  • possibly display additional information about the tag such as class and id

9 Comments

  1. Martin Elsworth on February 13, 2006 at 11:49 am

    Sorry, tried the update but still get the same failure message – 0.5 won’t work with Firefox 1.5.0.1

  2. Stuart Robertson on February 13, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    A few people have emailed with this eror—make sure you clear your cache and try again. :-)

  3. Projektor on February 15, 2006 at 3:47 pm

    Wicked extension! Greets from the guys at GH!

  4. Mary on February 15, 2006 at 11:58 pm

    Oh good!

    I just double-checked, and when I click “Find Updates” for version 0.5, it says “No updates were found for X-Ray.” I was, of course, able to update by downloading the xpi above.

    Love this extension. Thanks. :)

  5. CableGuy on February 23, 2006 at 12:19 pm

    Mary, I had the same problem (w2Ksp4+) but now with 0.6 it seems to be working correctly.

    Thanks to the developers for this update.

    Mark

  6. Stuart on March 3, 2006 at 3:52 pm

    Version 0.7 is now available

  7. Jon Galloway on March 3, 2006 at 6:42 pm

    links from Technorati is a cool new Firefox web development extension shows html tags inline with the page so you don’t have to keep flipping between the source and the page. Grab it here. Updated version that works with Firefox 1.5here. [via Randomize – X-Ray Extension for Firefox] posted @ 4:39 PM | Feedback (1)

  8. Solides und klares Webdesign ยป Pixeldrama on June 28, 2006 at 12:47 pm

    links from Technoratilive zu editieren, sich die einzelnden Elemente einrahmen lassen, Quelltexte in Tabs öffnen… Also eigentlich ist dieser Tip überflüssig,da alle Menschen, die Webdesign betreiben, um das Teil nur schwer herumkommen und es somit eh jeder kennt. X-Ray Extension: Stellt das Markup einer Webseite da, und zwar mittlerweile mit „id“ und „class“ Attributen. Dieser Röntgenapparat für Internetseiten ist ein feines Analysetool, um mal anderen über die Schulter zugucken oder Fehler in den eigenen Quelltexten

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