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Firebug was a game-changer when I discovered it back in 2008 or so. I wasn't a particularly good developer then, and the complete lack of debugging tools made i
by zegl 4y ago
Firebug was a game-changer when I discovered it back in 2008 or so. I wasn't a particularly good developer then, and the complete lack of debugging tools made it even worse: alert("this thing happened!") was literally the only way to debug anything (that I knew of anyway).
Afterwards, IIRC, Microsoft released a debugger for IE built into Visual Studio, and later both IE and Chrome followed Firebugs footsteps.
- JohnBooty 4y agoI wasn't a particularly good developer then, and the complete lack of debugging tools made it even worse Yeah! Before Firebug, I was strictly a "do it server-side" guy at all costs. The experience of trying to debug JS on any browser, let alone multiple browsers, was just a total crapshow. I was 10x, maybe 20x more productive server-side. Firebug changed that. It truly paved the way for actually-sane client side development/debugging. It is not an understatement to say that Firebug changed the world.
- kevincox 4y agoAnd alert was incredibly annoying because it required interaction to continue and the log wasn't visible to provide history. When I got really desperate I would stick a <pre id=log> at the top of the page and then start adding lines to it.