Comments on: Secret to Debugging JavaScript in Safari

By: Sherri

Sherri — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:18:23 +0000

How do you use debugging in safari on iPhone 3GS? I’m about ready to throw my phone.

By: Allasso

Allasso — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:46:35 +0000

You can access all of the defaults in the com.apple.Safari property list and turn them on or off.

In your home folder in your Finder:

Library > Preferences > com.apple.Safari.plist

double click to open it up in the plist editor.

eg, to turn debugging on, go to the IncludeDebugMenu pref, and change it to 1

By: Pankaj Bahuguna

Pankaj Bahuguna — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:58:49 +0000

window.print() / self.print()
both of them are not woking in safari 3.x.

By: BorkWeb » The Ajax Experience: Leveraging Ajax for Enterprise Application Development

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:11:42 +0000

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

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:07:16 +0000

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

By: Jesse Skinner

Jesse Skinner — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:03:58 +0000

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");