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This is a follow-up post of sorts on yesterday’s meander about this new design. While I was smashing out the code for it, I thought how cool would it be to be able to overlay a grid easily just to visually tweak a grid here and there. In fact, even though the original HTML and CSS was pretty solid, I ran into problems when converting that code into a WordPress theme. I don’t know why either, but my brain was already hurting from trying to figure out the math from pixels to ems, and sometimes back.

I could be just as easy to overlay a grid image with CSS, but just like everything in life there’s gotta be a FireFox extension that does it better. This tool ‘GridFox’ is just to damned handy to not deserve a mention. On the subject of Opera, I’m sure this could be added as a user.js file, or perhaps a widget, but I couldn’t find one similar to this.

And here’s a little screen shot of GridFox in action.

GridFox in action

In the past you could have considered me as an Opera Default user, which means for any task that is supposed to be easier in FireFox with a particular extension installed, I would still default to Opera and get the job done. Considering this, recently I’ve tried to be browser-agnostic when coding, so with that in mind I have been using Firefox alongside a number of the FireFox extensions for webdev since I feel it’s always worth checking them out. Now I’m even starting to prefer working in Safari’s webdev inspector over Dragonfly and FireBug included. Even though Opera is still the browser of choice for me, I readily admit to enjoying working with other tools and browsers.