{"id":1926,"date":"2009-04-17T14:12:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2009-04-17T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:12:55","slug":"handy-tool-for-debugging-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/1926","title":{"rendered":"Handy Tool for Debugging JavaScript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/firefox.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was trying to find a syntax error I had in my JavaScript today, and realized, once again, that the tools built in to the browsers on Windows\/Linux (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/\">Firefox<\/a> and IE) are pretty sad. Sure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Google Chrome<\/a> has a little more, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/download\/\">Safari 4 beta<\/a> as well, but I was on linux and that meant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/\">Firefox<\/a>, and it wasn't really helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Then I asked a co-worker, and he said he'd used a Firefox plugin <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/60\">Web Developer<\/a> to debug JavaScript. So I downloaded it and tried it out. <em>What a difference!<\/em> This is what I was looking for all along. Something that points out the line with the error and at least some sense of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>WIth this, I was able to diagnose my problem in no time. Thank goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to find a syntax error I had in my JavaScript today, and realized, once again, that the tools built in to the browsers on Windows\/Linux (Firefox and IE) are pretty sad. Sure, Google Chrome has a little more, and Safari 4 beta as well, but I was on linux and that meant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","category-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}