Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

A toolbar developed by Microsoft to help web developers of Internet Explorer explore and understand web pages. Composed of a variety of useful tools, including DOM explorer, layout elements outliner, HTML & CSS validator, one-click screen resizing, cache management, and page color picker, it also enables you to disable images, cookies, and scripts; view classes and IDs, as well as accessibility facilities like tab indices and access keys.



These features enable you to:

1. Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.
2. Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.
3. Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
4. View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
5. Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
6. Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS Web feed links.
7. Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
8. Immediately resize the browser window to a new resolution.
9. Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
10. Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
11. Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align and measure objects on your pages.

Downloadable by http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en, the newly released beta 2 is more stable and more enhanced in that you can now selectively enable and disable CSS parsing, read link reports, and select an element in the DOM explorer to make the IE scrolls it into view if it is not already visible in the browser window.