VisBug from Google, new practical dev tool

VisBug from Google: At the Chrome Dev conference in San Francisco today, Google announced a new developer tool called VisBug. VisBug simplifies editing a using a simple point-and-click interface.

VisBug is for now as a Chrome extension and can be installed from the Chrome Web Store.VisBug

Google developers likened it to Firebug, a plugin of its own that was ported to Chrome, and eventually ended up being integrated into Chrome's developer dashboard.

VisBug is just like Firebug, allowing everyday users to change the elements of a web page using a point-and-click interface and a drag-and-drop function.

Once installed the extension, you must press the three ALT + SHIFT + D keys together to start it. This extension is only useful for editing already created web pages or templates. Cannot create a website from scratch.

VisBug's main interface has a toolbar that appears on its left side . You can use toolbar controls to move elements on a page, edit text, create sticky elements, change text colors, change the shade of a , brightness and saturation.

The expansion needs more work at the moment. For example, we edited a page, but we could not save the new source code to a different file, so that we could later replace it on the page to apply the new settings.

We could view the source code of the page with CTRL + U and copy it from there but VisBug should have the option to save the new code.

But Google developers are quite honest about the limitations of VisBug, as shown in the README file of the extension in GitHub. There they state that it is not a full web design tool, but a pro in existing tools.

In the future, VisBug features could be integrated into Chrome Developer Tools, as a tool to help us improve a website. For example, a developer could use VisBug to make small visual enhancements using the drag-and-drop GUI instead of making modifications via CSS.

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