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Safari 1.3 has a JavaScript Console

My single biggest complaint about Safari in the past has been its terrible support for JavaScript debugging. Safari 1.3 has just been released, and tucked away in the Debug menu is a brand new JavaScript console option. It’s not as good as the Firefox equivalent (it throws up far too many “Undefined value, line: 0” errors for my liking) but it’s a big step in the right direction.

Posted 16th April 2005 at 5:06 pm

This is Safari 1.3 has a JavaScript Console by Simon Willison, posted on 16th April 2005.

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6 comments

  1. Finally!

    steve - 16th April 2005 17:51 - #

  2. Personally I always use Firefox for browsing anyway, since it has more features than Safari, but it's good to see Apple not neglecting their product and continuing to improve it instead.

    Paul - 16th April 2005 22:46 - #

  3. This is definitely great news, a long time coming in my opinion.

    Alistair - 17th April 2005 05:56 - #

  4. Good news for us Appleites. I begrudge using Firefox on my Mac because it's so much slower than Safari. Safari 2 (part of Tiger) looks like a real treat, too.

    Chris Beach - 17th April 2005 11:40 - #

  5. The Safari WebDevAdditions extension also allows you to evaluate javascripts, rather than just read error reports. PithHelmet's also got one - "A javascript console that will allow you to run a script in the context of the current web page and interactively tinker and inspect the results". http://www.laszlo.com.pl/webdev/index.php http://hiredgoons.com/software/PithHelmet/PithHelm et.php

    Jon Hicks - 18th April 2005 13:11 - #

  6. Couldn't resist

    Mike Amy - 28th August 2005 00:21 - #

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