Our web development workflow is completely broken
A small nitpick: the article lists the "IE Developer Toolbar" for IE6 first, and suggests that everybody else's development tools followed that model. In fact, the earliest reference I can find to the IE Developer Toolbar suggests[1] that it was released in early 2007, while the Firebug version history[2] shows Firebug v0.2 released in January 2006, so it's about a year older than IE's developer tools.<p>Even if Firebug itself is no longer head-and-shoulders better than other tools, the fact that the basic model was copied and polished by Microsoft, Apple, Opera and later Mozilla themselves shows that Joe Hewitt had a pretty great idea back in early 2006.<p>[1]: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/01/09/ie-developer-toolbar-beta-3-now-available.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/01/09/ie-developer-t...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/versions/?page=4" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/versi...</a>