Quoted: A simple and fast AJAX-powered .NET regular expression tester.

Quoted: But then, while you’re sitting on your googlechair in the googleplex sipping googleccinos and feeling smuggy smug smug smug, new versions of the browsers come out that support cached, compiled JavaScript. And suddenly NewSDK is really fast. And Paul Graham gives them another 6000 boxes of instant noodles to eat, so they stay in business another three years perfecting things.

Very useful tool -- generate loading graphics with custom colors.

Quoted: Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator

This is at least the second very high profile "oh hay nvrmind" in Ajax-land ... the Yahoo! TV redesign was also backed off to be less "Ajax-y" (it was totally unusable, just awful).

Gmail didn't have this problem because they took their inspiration from Mutt, not Outlook. Speed and simplicity beats bells & whistles ...

Quoted: New Hotmail--it's a classic | Microsoft embarks in a years' long redesign of its Web mail program only to find most of its users like things the way they are. |

Some detail on Firebug from its creator. Will give this a read next time I get to debugging.

Quoted: Firebug is a Firefox extension that includes all the tools you need for efficient debugging during the Web development process.

It's fast like a ninja.

Quoted: A fast online dictionary

Quoted: Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.

Exciting stuff coming in Firefox 2.0.

Quoted: This specification introduces two related mechanisms, similar to HTTP session cookies [RFC2965], for storing structured data on the client side.

Quoted: The globalStorage DOM attribute is used to access the global storage areas. The site at example.com can display a count of how many times the user has loaded its page by putting the following at the bottom of its page:

Quoted: This extension pops up an alert dialog to warn chrome and extension developers about one particular type of leak. It warns when chrome windows close but leave other code pointing at their JavaScript objects.