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Minor nitpick. WebKit created a debugger a couple of years before chrome existed. https://webkit.org/blog/61/introducing-drosera/ https://webkit.org/blog/61/int

by aidos 7y ago

Minor nitpick. WebKit created a debugger a couple of years before chrome existed. https://webkit.org/blog/61/introducing-drosera/ https://webkit.org/blog/61/introducing-drosera/

ScottFree 7y ago
Yes, the bike shed should definitely be green. I knew somebody was going to object to that little factoid despite its irrelevance to the point at hand. I've updated my comment to remove any reference to any specific in-browser debugger.
- aidos 7y ago
  Apologies, didn’t intend to detract from your point. I thought people might be interested in the history of it since very few people even at the time seemed to know of its existence.
  - ScottFree 7y ago
    No worries. I should have chosen my words more carefully. And, to be fair, I didn't know webkit was the first to create an in-browser debugger either. I always thought it was either Chrome or Firefox.
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glandium 7y ago
The Mozilla Suite had a javascript debugger (https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/ https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/) before either Webkit or Firefox existed. I won't claim it's the first, although it might as well be.
- shakna 7y ago
  Netscape even had a JS debugger in '97 [0]. [0] http://www.rdwarf.com/lerickson/jscript/jsd.pdf http://www.rdwarf.com/lerickson/jscript/jsd.pdf
  - glandium 7y ago
    Wow, I wish I had known that back then. How did I miss that?
    - shakna 7y ago
      Don't worry, you didn't miss much. It was as stable as most software of that era.
      - aidos 7y ago
        Though, surely it wasn't better than the IE js debugger. "Error on line 0"