Each to their own I guess, Firebug for me is too much like using a
sledgehammer to crack a nut for Flash applications - it's unwieldy and I
have found it to be a bigger memory hog than Adobe products.
I have found it vaguely useful for debugging / learning AJAX coding, but
I still find Charles much more useful and I never use it for HTML / CSS
- half the time I don't want to inspect my variables, but then I tend
not to do any heavyweight AJAX. I guess I am a bit long in the tooth
for using Firebug for developing web-code, I never saw the point of
inspecting my CSS when I can do that in the editor and find it much
quicker to change the colour of a div and resize than try and tweak it
in the debugger. I think it's because I am used to writing my own JS
that I did not use the debugger much - I am not looking at other
people's libraries so tend to know where I am in the code and what is
not working. If I was to go back to doing HTML stuff now I might change
my mind, but I am trying to avoid it because I hate doing websites
nearly as much as I hate Steve Jobs.
Valentin Schmidt wrote:
or the "Firebug" addon (which IMHO every web developper should have
installee in his firefox anyway), in the Network Tab in can also show
you the exact details of all HTTP transactions, of course also those
started by the flash (or director shockwave) plugin.
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