Secret to Debugging JavaScript in Safari

10 Responses to “Secret to Debugging JavaScript in Safari”

1. Jesse Skinner on February 3rd, 2006 12:03 pm

   From the Safari Developer FAQ:

   To display the debug menu, open a Terminal window and type:

   defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

   Unfortunately, the JavaScript debugger in Safari is as bad as the default error messages in Internet Explorer. But, being able to output to the console really makes up for it (almost). You can just do:

   window.console.log("hello world");

2. zbtirrell on February 3rd, 2006 6:07 pm

   ooh, that’s even cleaner than the application I got, I’ll definitely use that method at home!

3. BorkWeb » The Ajax Experience: Leveraging Ajax for Enterprise Application Development on October 30th, 2006 11:11 am

   [...] Debugging difficult (not entirely true) [...]

4. jlu on June 13th, 2007 5:15 pm

   I use javascript debugger everyday.
   The best javascript debugger I saw so far is Microsoft’s Script Editor. If you have MS Office, it’s likely you already have it.
   Firefox Venkman is ok, although not as user friendly.
   Most of Safari debugging “tools” are useless. Most of the time I have to use javascript alerts to debug on Safari.

5. Pooja on August 22nd, 2007 6:36 am

   In Safari, If i need to get the value as
   document.list_form.guarantorPersValuesSpain.value =2;
   alert(”testing result 1=”+ test );
   test += 2;
   alert(”testing result 2=”+ test );

   It results
   ————
   testing result 1=

   testing result 2= 2

   why the first alert value is blank and second alert has not resulted as “22″.
   Can anyone resolve it??

   Thanks & regards,
   Pooja

6. devel on November 29th, 2007 6:15 am

   Safari debug is shitty and useless

7. developer99 on February 1st, 2008 11:09 am

   Safari for developers is crap. Drosera freezes regularly and the debugging tools have got to be the crappiest ive seen yet. No comparison to firebug… frustrating to say the least. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel, and take some notes on what works.

8. Rob on February 27th, 2008 11:48 am

   Thanks for the article… it helped me find something that’s been eluding me for months. We write some crazy Javascript at my job, and debugging it in the Windows version of Safari is/has/was/been hell. Following link shows how to turn on the debug menu for the Windows Safari beta.

   http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070611144942562

9. Robert on March 19th, 2008 5:01 pm

   The biggest problem I have with Safari debugging is the inability to set breakpoints and get stack traces. Is there a Safari debugger that supports this?

10. Rolf Dergham on May 14th, 2008 4:15 am

    http://macdevelopertips.com/safari/firebug-like-tools-in-safari.html

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