On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 Oct 2009 6:59:05 am Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> Firebug is very very very powerful. ;) > > I have personally found firebug useless - apache log files are far more > effective > in debugging problems with css and js - 90% of these problems in production > are to do with paths. Since both css and js fail silently, the 404 errors will > be found in the apache access logs and not in the error logs. As for other > javascript errors, these should be debugged *before* putting them in > production.
Dear KG, If you nurse somewhat "negative" views in your heart, it is best that you not out them thereby discouraging would be learners. People who have never heard about firebug before will get a chance to look at it. That is the purpose of my tip. But after reading your post, they may feel that it was not worth their while to take a look. By the way your argument is wrong too. I shall explain. Apache logs only tell you traffic stats and referrers and of course 404 errors and web server problems. Problems with configuring Apache. But firebug is a javascript development and CSS development tool. Have you done serious web development with javascript? It can be really painful since it is as rich a language as C in certain ways. You most definitely need a friend like firebug. And I never said that you should use firebug after you have the code in production. You debug it whilst developing. Even spidermonkey which I sent few days ago does not simulate the complete browser environment. Anyway it is not my nature to argue. I shall not reply to this thread anymore. Have a nice day. Happy firebugging! ;) I am very good at bugging people, not sure about this. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
