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I'm sure most people know this, but Firefox's developer tools has this feature for any website you're on. Its very cool and sometimes quite handy when developing for web.

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They mention that on the page, sounds like that was their inspiration:

"Reveal brings the power of tools like Firebug and Web Inspector to iOS developers."

Firefox's 3D View was definitely an inspiration. Note however that Reveal lets you focus in on a view within the view hierarchy, which is handy when you're only interested in one part of a large hierarchy.

Symbiote (https://github.com/TestingWithFrank/symbiote) and DCIntrospect (https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect) were also inspirations.

Can anyone think of a time when it's actually useful? I'm having a hard time thinking of any.

Granted, i dont use it often, but i find it very handy for specific things that require a lot of work on positioning or when trying to dissect someone elses code.

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