On Saturday 29 November 2008, Jeffrey Kretz wrote: > This may be overkill for your needs, but it is free: > > http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/ > > It also has jQuery-aware intellisense. > > Whenever I need to debug an IE script page, I do ALT-V, U, O, pick the VS > Debugger and it opens right up with all the scripts available, can set > breakpoints, view variables and properties, etc. etc. > > As much as I adore Firebug and can't live without it, its debugger is FAR > eclipsed by the Visual Studio one (IMO). >
Thanks for that link. I was just going to ask if there even is a half way decent debugger for IE. Windows is so unwieldy when it comes to debugging (but that may just be me, as using Windows is a pain for me and I only do when there's absolutely no way around it...) Personally I write my stuff for Firefox (or better "standards compliant" - where firefox has it's issues every now and then, but far less than IE). Once all that works I start to degrade it to IE7. On all websites where I can make the decision (non-client websites), I don't even support IE6. Hey, if you use that old piece of crap you don't deserve visiting my website. The only thing I do for those guys is give them the download links to IE7, FF,Safari or Chrome.
