Question

Many times I encounter a site, and would like to know – how did they do this?

Moreover, I’m looking at a the work of someone else in my own (web) project, and want to understand what exactly did he do?

What are the parts of the page? Which scripting manipulations are being performed? Which requests are being sent to the server, and when?

All this information is obviously present in the web page when one is browsing. However it can be very difficult to read and understand it.

Does anybody know of some tools for doing this better?

Could you define precisely some of the difficulties of such a process?

Any tips and strategies how this can be done?

Thank you!

Gidi

Answer 1

Download FireBug for Firefox. It is invaluable for this sort of thing.

http://getfirebug.com/