On Tuesday 13 Oct 2009 7:46:08 am Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > 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.
why will they get discouraged? if they want to learn new things, they should have courage to learn. > > 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. they also may think they should prove me wrong > > 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? no - as mentioned above, this is my personal point of view > > 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. I do not - others may do > > And I never said that you should use firebug after you have > the code in production. You debug it whilst developing. nice explanation here: http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/06/introduction-to- firebug/ -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.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
