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There was a very capable javascript debugger as a mozilla plugin (don't think it was an addon), years before firebug/browsers dev tools had one. It don't rememb
by gcb0 9y ago
There was a very capable javascript debugger as a mozilla plugin (don't think it was an addon), years before firebug/browsers dev tools had one. It don't remember the name, it was something with a V.
- rkwz 9y agoVenkman Debugger? https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/ https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/
- fzzzy 9y agoVenkman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venkman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venkman
- carussell 9y agoFirebug was neither the first for step-by-step JS debugging, nor for poking at the DOM. Those two things were within the purview of Venkman—the original Mozilla JS debugger—and the DOM Inspector—Firebug's predecessor created in 2001 by Joe Hewitt, an ex-Netscape/AOL employee and the original author of Firebug itself. Honza's timeline is off. I've left a note in the blog comments about this.