Richard Strucke

Safari Extensions for Developers

I’m forever on the hunt for trade tools that make a job easier, faster, and more interesting. In my quest for better browser dev tools I’ve come across a few great Safari extensions. Here’s the short list, a few choice add-ons to evolve Safari into a better web development weapon.

Better Source (Mac)
As the name suggests, Better Source generates a more user friendly and accessible source code page that is color coded and line numbered for an all around better user experience.

View Style Sheets (Mac)
Sick of routing around in source code to look through a style sheet? With the View Style Sheets extension you can right click on any page to pull up a clickable menu that will take you directly to the css you’re after.

Maximize (Mac)
A window-resizing extension to allow you to quickly resize your browser window to left and right align on your screen, but even better to view many popular screen resolutions – like 800×600, 1024×768, etc. Oh, and for you Windows converts, you can Maximize your browser window to take advantage of your full screen real estate.

For those who missed my previous post about ClickToFlash, the opt-in Flash plug-in, be sure to give it a try. To me, ClickToFlash is an essential Safari add-on worth adding to your Safari toolkit.

Have a great dev extension you think should be on this list? Post it to the comments.