# Browser whilst using Rails **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 17, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/browser-whilst-using-rails/65281 "2006-08-17T10:01:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dohmer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/browser-whilst-using-rails/65281/1 "2006-08-17T10:01:48Z")
Hi I’m just starting to learn Rails, deploying it under SuSe Linux and Mac OS X. Silly question but without being contraversial what web browsers do people think its best to use to view the results. No need to complain about IE because I will be using webrick so its only viewable on the actual machines 🙂 TIA Paul ---
**Author:** ![dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dohmer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/browser-whilst-using-rails/65281/2 "2006-08-17T10:13:49Z")
Paul J. wrote: > Hi > I’m just starting to learn Rails, deploying it under SuSe Linux and > Mac OS X. > Silly question but without being contraversial what web browsers do > people think its best to use to view the results. > All of them. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dohmer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/browser-whilst-using-rails/65281/3 "2006-08-17T10:28:51Z")
On 8/17/06, Alex Y. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Paul J. wrote: > > > Hi > > I’m just starting to learn Rails, deploying it under SuSe Linux and > > Mac OS X. > > Silly question but without being contraversial what web browsers do > > people think its best to use to view the results. > > All of them. Firefox has an extension called IETab which let’s you open IE windows in a tab inside Firefox - very useful for web dev. Also, if you mess with CSS and Javascript a lot, Firefox has a DOM inspector and very detailed “Page info” that I have made frequent use of. Like Alex says, you’ll need to test on at least Opera and Safari too. Les ---
**Author:** ![dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dohmer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/browser-whilst-using-rails/65281/4 "2006-08-17T11:01:53Z")
On 8/17/06, Leslie V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Firefox has an extension called IETab which let’s you open IE windows > in a tab inside Firefox - very useful for web dev. Also, if you mess > with CSS and Javascript a lot, Firefox has a DOM inspector and very > detailed “Page info” that I have made frequent use of. And a superb extension called Firebug that has saved me countless hours of hunting down elusive javascript, generated-html and ajax bugs. martin ---
**Author:** ![dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dohmer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dohmer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/browser-whilst-using-rails/65281/5 "2006-08-17T11:01:54Z")
Paul J. wrote: > Hi > I’m just starting to learn Rails, deploying it under SuSe Linux and > Mac OS X. > Silly question but without being contraversial what web browsers do > people think its best to use to view the results. > No need to complain about IE because I will be using webrick so its > only viewable on the actual machines 🙂 > > TIA Paul There are Several Extensions for Firefox that let you exaim GET/POST and HTTP Header Information send by the server. Your Webapplication should run on “any browser”. If you use ajax I’d recommend adding all functionality without javascript (slow but still working) as well.