Currently I am working on a project that has to deploy a website that works in Safari, but developers are only given Windows laptops to work on. (I’m not going to digress on that decision, it was made before I arrived) So there was a moderate amount of excitement earlier this week when Apple announced Safari for Windows, even though it is beta.
So I’ve now spent a couple days with it, and it is fassst, not much else I can say, but I’m not really a fan of Safari on OS X either.
Anyway for the life of me, I cannot find a javascript debugger anywhere, I’ve checked the preferences a few times, dug through the registry to see if anything obvious showed up, searched technorati, google, apple support and I can’t find it. If there is no debugger they could at least let you know when a javascript error has occurred. I’m not asking for firebug here, although it would be nice.
Did Apple really ship a web browser that is supposed to be used in developing applications (?) for the iPhone w/o a way to debug javascript. If they did, shame on them. If they did include it, how the hell do I turn it on?
Update: they didn’t, you can enable the debug by going to c:\Documents and Settings\your username\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\Preferences.plist
and adding the following before the last </dict>:
<key>IncludeDebugMenu</key>
<true/>
I found the above tip at http://hohle.net
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