Javascript Debugging for IE
In 2007, the year when the word Web 2.0 is taking over the world of Internet and seen as the resurgence of the another wonderful dot-com era, the world’s favorite web browser, Internet Explorer, still does not have a proper Javascript debugger. You’d have to go through hoops just to get one working by alternative means. How can developers working with IE’s framework love its technologies I guess I’ll never understand…
Some people claim MS is all goodies under the hood for developers. Com’on, where are the goodies? I haven’t met a web developer who doesn’t hate IE.
People who continue to use IE by choice are idiots. There. I’ve said it. Idiots. Idiots. Idiots. Start using better browsers from companies who care so that the World Wide Web can be a better place!
Ok. I feel better now… Back to dealing with crappy IE for idiots who prefer it.
Microsoft should change their marketing tag line to: Your Misery. Our Passion.
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August 15th, 2007 at 1:49 am
Hi,
For IE debugging, you can use The Debugbar (http://www.debugbar.com) which will give you Dom inspector, Javascript inspector, Javascript console, HTTP/S sniffer with AJAX requests, etc….
and Companion.JS (http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/CompanionJS/HomePage) which is an early stage for a IE Javascript debugger and will give you real line numering and call stack frame on JS errors (better than nothing).
This is not as complete as Firebug for instance, but will give you some tools to debug faster under IE.
Hope this helps.
JFR.
http://www.debugbar.com
August 16th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Thanks. This looks interesting. I’ll give the demo version a try and see how that works out for me.