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.
