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Heh, nearly that far back I was wishing I could install Venkman in IE. JQuery and Firebug deserve a lot of credit for bringing some sanity to JS/web developmen

• aidos 11y ago
  Man, it was 2006 (10 years ago!) when Firebug, Drosera [1] and Web Inspector [2] were all released. There were definitely a lot of people eager to have some tools to make front end web dev easier back then. I never worked with Venkman but I recall all too well the hellish time I had debugging JS back around the turn of the millennium. IE was laughable, if there was an error in a script somewhere it would often just say error on line -1. [1] https://webkit.org/blog/61/introducing-drosera/ https://webkit.org/blog/61/introducing-drosera/ [2] https://webkit.org/blog/41/introducing-the-web-inspector/ https://webkit.org/blog/41/introducing-the-web-inspector/
  • antod 11y ago
    That part about the line numbers in IE error messages was exactly the pain I was thinking of :)