IE Developers Rejoice! New JS Debugging Tool

Posted At : October 18, 2007 9:59 AM | Posted By : Rey Bango
Related Categories: JavaScript

Just got this from Ajaxian.

IE has always had the crappiest set of JavaScript debugging tools forcing developers to try to troubleshoot issues via alert() or jumping to FireFox w/ Firebug to troubleshoot. Well, Jean-Fabrice Rabaute has a solution. He just released Companion.js, a debugging toolbar for IE!

Companion.JS (pronounced Companion dot JS or CJS) is a Javascript debugger for IE.

The current version is 0.2, adds the following features to IE :

The toolbar :
- Menu to customize the DebugBar and check updates.
- Toggle the Development bar
- Alert on javascript errors
- Send page screenshot by email
- Color picker
- Resize IE window
- Zoom page
- View source code
- View MSHTML integrated ActiveX source code
The Development bar :
- View HTML DOM Tree
- View original ad interpreted source code
- View tab attributes
- Edit tab attributes
- View HTTP and HTTPS headers
- View page cookies
- Validate html code for main page and frames/iframes
- List all javascript functions
- View javascript function code
- Execute javascript code in the currently loaded page
- Get information about currently loaded page

I'm definitely giving this toolbar a shot as anything that helps debugging in IE easier is worth a try.

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/CompanionJS/HomePage

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wow, cool! Hmm, please blog on how it all works out? I'd love to use it for IE, there are some JS that works on IE and breaks on FireFox.. which makes it a pain to debug!

# Posted By Amy | 10/18/07 12:24 PM

Rey -

How does it compare to FF Web Developer toolbar and FF Firebug?

# Posted By Patrick Whittingham | 10/18/07 2:37 PM

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