IEBlog announces that Microsoft has released the 3rd beta of the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. The biggest update seems to be to the CSS interface with the ‘Style Tracer’ to show what styles are being applied to the currently selected object.  That works nicely, but the subsequent ‘Trace Style’ and ‘CSS Selector Matches’ have no effect on my browser (IE 7 on Win2003). 

From the Internet Explorer Dev Toolbar Wiki:

UI refresh – A single button on the toolbar that opens the DOM inspector and reorganised menus
Style tracer – Find where the style is defined by right clicking on the style attribute in teh right pain
View Source – Both the generated and original source as well as the source for the selected elements.

Even without that working it’s still really good, it runs fast and does pretty much the same things that the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar does, at least all the things that I use it for anyway.

It’s nice to see this evolve into a useful developer tool, especially for people like me who need to do cross-browser development.  Remember the Developers Developers Developers!

via Gadgetopia