The 3D view is not "every day" useful, but people have found it to be a quick way to spot unexpected nesting issues.
As noted elsewhere, this feature started life as an add-on made during Google Summer of Code 2011 by Victor Porof, who continues to work on Firefox developer tools today.
(in case you hadn't guessed, I work for Mozilla... usual biases therefore apply ;)
It's apparently very useful for discovering some nasty XSS bugs. I think eventually, this might be one of the "last stops" in testing new front-end designs; a staple, but not something you need to be switching into every five minutes (unless there's something to be fixed.)
Very jealous of this as a Chrome user. :) Good job guys.
It was the most awesome thing in my talk at HOPE Number 9 about using browser tools to figure out what sites are doing. I compared it with the scene in Jurassic Park where the girl "knows Unix".
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Here's the blog post in which I introduced the feature...
http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/03/13/firefox-adds-new-dev...
The 3D view is not "every day" useful, but people have found it to be a quick way to spot unexpected nesting issues.
As noted elsewhere, this feature started life as an add-on made during Google Summer of Code 2011 by Victor Porof, who continues to work on Firefox developer tools today.
(in case you hadn't guessed, I work for Mozilla... usual biases therefore apply ;)
It's apparently very useful for discovering some nasty XSS bugs. I think eventually, this might be one of the "last stops" in testing new front-end designs; a staple, but not something you need to be switching into every five minutes (unless there's something to be fixed.)
Very jealous of this as a Chrome user. :) Good job guys.
It was the most awesome thing in my talk at HOPE Number 9 about using browser tools to figure out what sites are doing. I compared it with the scene in Jurassic Park where the girl "knows Unix".