Sure, and that's why when you are in eclipse and you're debugging java, you are connected to a real jvm. I don't see any reason why you couldn't be connected t

Sure, and that's why when you are in eclipse and you're debugging java, you are connected to a real jvm. I don't see any reason why you couldn't be connected to a real browser from inside an IDE. In an ideal world, all browsers would export (or have a plugin that did it for them) a standardised debugging interface.