There are few interesting tools to help in the development, debugging and testing of AJAX based web apps. When we talk about AJAX, we are obviously talking about client-side programming with focus on Javascript, DOM and CSS.
The discussed tools are specific to either Internet Explorer or Firefox and hence the categorization based on those.
IE Tools:Drip/Sieve - Memory leak detector for DOM and Javascript
Fiddler - Http sniffer for IE
Visual Studio.NET - Javascript Debugger
FF Tools:
Live HTTP Headers - Http sniffer plugin for FF
Web Developer toolbar - DOM/Page explorer
FireBug - Javascript debugger
Venkman - Javascript profiler cum debugger
IE Tab - Embeds IE as a tab within FF
Among the list, FireBug and Venkman are of interest to me.
Watch the space for hands-on.
Fiddler can actually debug traffic from any browser or application that supports a proxy.
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