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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Dev Tools Power — Elements Tab

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0

You're listening to syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there strap yourself in and get ready

0:07.7

Here is Scott to Lensky and West boss. Welcome to syntax the podcast with the tastiest developer tools treats

0:16.2

Today, we've got a banger for you on the DevTools elements tab specifically one of our last episode was on a couple of

0:24.5

The miscellaneous tabs in DevTools and what they do where they're handy that episode did really really well

0:30.5

And we said we will go in and do an entire episode just on the elements tab because there's so much that you can do

0:37.0

So the idea behind this one is that we're going to dive into the elements tab and talk about the features and more importantly

0:42.8

Like when you use them like oh, this is handy if you ever have to do xy and see because these are not necessarily things that you'll

0:49.5

Use every single day, but when you have an issue is very quick to solve view you know how to use the the DevTools properly

0:57.6

We are sponsored by linode linux cloud hosting century air exception performance tracking and mox

1:05.9

Video in ap api's and hosting for your video platform talk about them part way through the episode

1:12.8

I'm West boss with me as always is mr. Scott to lensky how you doing?

1:17.2

Hey, I'm doing good my

1:19.6

Computer is not though. We we just recorded two episodes

1:23.0

I have not changed anything about my setup and all of sudden I my

1:27.8

Frames per second here of my mouse cursor is no drag and so is your battery low battery is a not low

1:35.5

Did I ever tell you about that issue ahead with the canvas with the canvas?

1:40.7

I was doing like canvas drawing app and all sudden

1:44.4

It was like buttery smooth and then all sudden it got like really jaggedy to the point where like the drawing didn't look good

1:51.3

And I spent forever debugging it and it turned out to be a low battery in my mouse

1:56.0

And it was just not sending mouse move events as frequently as it was. Oh, yeah

2:00.6

That is not this but that happens all the time with this track pad

2:03.6

You know what one of the things I learned how to do from West boss was to get those braided cables with the three heads on it

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