Helful tools for creating gadgets

Hi,

Coming with links again :)

Here's some tools that I found very useful if you like creting gadgets or any AJAX based pages. They're also helpful for DHTML. Anything that changes content on the fly client-side and the View Source doesn't show you the actual DOM but the initial one.

Here's one from Microsoft (it's beta but it's free and pretty powerfull): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en

Here's a free and pretty easy to use one, tho it's not too powerful: http://www.dominspector.com

One from IEInspector Software (15 days trial version): http://www.ieinspector.com/dominspector/

Also some fast javascript executed in the URL I found it useful for when you have something small to look for:
See the cookies:
javascript:alert(document.cookie)
See the whole DOM
javascript:alert(document.documentElement.outerHTML)
Write the whole DOM in the page content so you can look with View Source
javascript:document.write(document.documentElement.outerHTML)
Get the DOM specific for a given element
javascript:alert(document.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('a')[2].outerHTML)

For the future I'll try to put together also some examples of how to play with gadgets.

Thanks,
Ionutz