Helium.js - discover unused CSS on your site

Re:Helium.js - discover unused CSS on your site by niyazpk on Thursday January 14, 2010 @10:37PM (#1054179)

Its incredibly important to web developers to be able to test IE, too. Helium needs a lot of extra work to support the older Internet Explorer browsers to patch around the missing features required. It will get done.

I cannot see why you should develop this for IE. This tool is no going to be used by end users. Developers are going to have Chrome/Safari or Firefox installed in their machines. Are there so many IE CSS hacks used in websites?

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Re:Helium.js - discover unused CSS on your site by DrJokepu on Thursday January 14, 2010 @10:40PM (#1054186)

Because IE has "special needs". Very often different stylesheets or even different markup is served for IE. This could be circumvented by faking IE with the user-agent string but ideally it would just support IE out of the box.

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Re:Helium.js - discover unused CSS on your site by niyazpk on Thursday January 14, 2010 @10:45PM (#1054198)

I guess you are correct. It is incredibly painful to know that even tiny developer tools should support IE.

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