This is a
nice little gem I found while perusing
ComputerZen.
I've been out-of-blog (similar to out-of-touch but with blogs) for
almost a week now. While getting back into the swing of things, I
went to one of my favorite tech blogs,
ComputerZen.com, and noticed Scotts
entry on a FireFox extension that embeds an IE window within a FireFox tab via the context menu.
To things I've noticed within the first 5 minutes of using:
- Tabbing around a form doesn't seem to work, and
- Typing in a url in a Tab that is already IE embedded reverts that tab back to FireFox.
Both minor in my opinion but worth noting.
Other than that, I, being a web developer, look forward to using this. Thanks to
PCMan (Hong Jen Yee) for creating this.
Down load it here from
Mozilla.
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1419
If you're using Firefox 1.0.x, you have to install an additional package from the following link to make it work.
http://downloads.mozdev.org/ietab/ietab_plugin-1.0.3.xpi
UPDATE: For those of us who use IE and Mozilla for web designing &
layout purposes, this isn't 100%. For the most part, all is good
but <fieldsets />; don't render properly (see this site: www.bit-shift.com,
in IE and IE embedded - you'll notice a difference.) and if that is the
case, there might be other tags/css that don't render properly.
My suggestion for web developers; keep using the actual browsers for
referencing layout.