> I have some ideas for AJAXy web sites, and I'm thinking of > implementing them in my spare time, but I don't know what tools > to learn and use.
One tool I strongly recommend is Firebug, a Firefox plugin. Amongst its many good features is that it makes debugging AJAX transactions almost trivial. Unfortunately, once you have your app working in Firefox, then you have to deal with IE -- blech. Fortunately, there is a way to use Firebug in IE (I just discovered this myself, so I'm doing a little happy dance in the office as I write this). I haven't tried it yet, but *anything* is better than the crap MS gives you. (Both browsers and debuggers) Another suggestion is jQuery as a JS framework (light and very featureful) and the excellent taconite plugin. Those two, combined with a trivial Django support class I wrote for taconite, make AJAX about as straight forward as you could possibly ask for. Finally, a simple debugging tip: When you really want to see what values variables have at a certain point during page processing, insert 1/0 (generates a Zero Division error) at that point in the code. This isn't really a breakpoint, more of a smash-into-the-wall point, but it will give you Django's excellent error page, which includes a very nice stack trace and all of the local variables. Note: this won't do what you want during variable resolution in template pages because that is wrapped in a try/except block and simply returns "" on error. HTH, Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
