Did you know that if you’ve got Firebug for Firefox installed, you can use it for debugging your own code? By calling
console.log("Here's a message!");
Firebug will print the message to it’s internal message log. Neat!
Now, that’s all good. But let’s say you’re on a project that’s not using a Javascript preprocessor to minify and strip debugging […]
Continue reading about A Javascript debugging tip for Firebug (or “Stop using alert()!”)
One hugely important thing in coding is debugging. Unfortunately, a lot of Javascript debugging gets done via alert() calls. This gets awkward quickly, with the alerts affecting timing, and just being annoying if you have to dump large amounts of data out.
Firebug is a great development tool, and has a really handy logging interface that […]