Is there a particular reason that you have chosen not to upgrade your operating system? You would be better served if you upgrade your OS X, as you will have a lot of other options. That solution that I posted, with the PPC version of a nice web browser, is designed for those that want, or need to stay with PPC versions. Those cannot be upgraded to any newer OS X version The usual reason is when using a PowerPC Mac, such as a G4 or G5 Mac. Those found above are 'must haves.Sorry - I assumed that you had to stay with 10.5.8. It's a DOM, JavaScript and HTTP header inspector as well as allows you to dynamically edit CSS.Ī good list of browser debugging tools is found here though the list is always growing. Starting with 9.0, Opera has the Developer Console. For now, it's the only choice you have for debugging web pages on Safari. I suspect the Safari/Webkit folks will have this in the future. In Safari, you can use the Debug menu to inspect the DOM, but unlike Firebug or IE's Developer Toolbar, you can't live edit HTML or CSS. Understanding the structure and the CSS rules applied to it is critical to debugging a web page. With it, I can click on a DOM element and immediately see it's relationship with other elements and it's style. One of the features that I use a lot in the Developer Toolbar ( and in Firebug ) is the element inspector. Use it to inspect, change elements and styles on the page. Similar to Firebug is the Developer Toolbar found for IE. You'd be surprised at what you don't know you're bringing into the browser! I primarily use YSlow to see what I'm downloading.

It's a great tool for debugging web pages on Firefox.įirebug also supports add-ons like YSlow that analyzes your page and tells you why your page is slow based on Yahoo!'s 14 rules for high performance web sites. On Firefox, the defacto standard debugger is Joe Hewitt's Firebug. I have the luxury of running all the browsers in their native environments.īrowser debuggers allow you to view and manipulate the three components that make up a web page. I don’t run multiple versions of IE or use a virtual PC image. I also have access to a Vista box to take on that version’s IE7. I code on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.4 though I have an XP box to tackle issues on IE6/IE7. “Major” means IE, Firefox, Safari and to a small degree Opera ( if you’re interested in browser market share, check this out. It's a topic that we haven't visited before.Īt Yahoo!, we have graded browser support and so, as a frontend developer you tackle the problems found only in the major browsers. We'll start off 2008 and talk about web browser debugging tools.

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