I would never in a million years choose to develop in IE first and then FF, there are just so many tools in FF that increases my reproductivity it would be slower for me to try to debug first in IE for the issue that FF would let me catch easier and faster.
Andy Matthews-4 wrote: > > > Larry... > > I'm RIGHT there with you. Better to develop in IE, then move forward into > other browsers. Better than getting cool code working with a "fringe" > browser, then finding out it doesn't work correctly in the primary > browser. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of McLars > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:59 PM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Debug Tools - Charles, DebugBar, Firebug Lite > > > IEDeveloperToolbar is somewhat helpful, but kinda flaky. Honestly, though, > 99% of the time I just use alert(). I have Firebug, but never use it since > I > develop on IE. As you said, that's what the vast majority of (and all of > our > intranet) users are on. > > I know that is contrary to how many develop, but I feel it's better to > develop on the weaker and more popular platform. If it works on IE, FF, > Opera, and Safari are usually pretty close. It's better to find the bugs > while you work, rather than build a lot of stuff only to find it fail in > IE--where the debugging is limited. > > That's just my personal choice, but I don't have very many bugs. ;) > > Larry > > Jeffrey Kretz wrote: >> There's a bit more overhead, but the free Visual Studio Web Express >> Edition has a very good debugger: >> >> >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/Default.aspx >> >> >> >> I use Firebug as well, but I feel that this is the best IE debugger >> available. >> >> >> >> JK >> >> >> >> _____ >> >> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Benjamin Sterling >> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:19 AM >> To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com >> Subject: [jQuery] Re: Debug Tools - Charles, DebugBar, Firebug Lite >> >> >> >> In IE I use a combination of DebugBar, IEDevelopemnt toolbar and Opera >> (IE and Opera use more or less that same javascript engine and Opera >> has a nice Error console). I also us the iLogger plugin[1] >> >> http://trac.asterisk2billing.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/browser/tags/1.3.1/A >> 2BCust >> omer_UI/javascript/jquery/ilogger.js?rev=462 >> >> On 1/3/08, Christof Donat < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> > What debug tools do you all use? [...] How about tools for IE? >> > Is there anything you'd reccomend? >> >> alert() >> >> Christof >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Benjamin Sterling >> http://www.KenzoMedia.com >> http://www.KenzoHosting.com >> http://www.benjaminsterling.com > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Debug-Tools---Charles%2C-DebugBar%2C-Firebug-Lite-tp14602012s27240p14607913.html Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
