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June 29, 2006

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Debug your Javascript

Posted Jun. 29, ’06, 7:23 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Internet

Drosera Web developers, Apple has a new toy tool for you. Drosera, named after the largest bug eating plant (clever), allows you to debug Javascript in any WebKit app, as long as its using a very recent build of WebKit (a nightly). Additionally, you’ll need to set a plist parameter for Safari. It also shares a little in common with its brother, Web Inspector.

One of the unique things about Drosera, like the Web Inspector, is that over 90% of it is written in HTML and JavaScript. This is a true testament of what you can do with web technologies today and the rapid development that WebKit allows.

It looks like Drosera could be a very useful tool that may even allow web developers that are having problems deploying their applications to Safari find out a deficiency in either their code, or in Safari’s Javascript implementation (which could be reported). I think this will end up benefiting end users.


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