Category: IE
, Browsers
, Conference
We were happy to have Laurel Reitman, the lead program manager
on the IE team, out at the Ajax Experience. There was a lot of good
dialog between her and Alex, Brendan, and others about the future
of browsers in general and IE in specific. She has written a post
on the IEBlog recapping her thoughts from the conference, and also
pointing to some tools for folks struggling in IE.
One question on the top of everyone’s mind is how to debug and
get more information about what’s going on with their AJAX-style
applications. I wanted to point folks to some of the tools that are
available today with Internet Explorer, many of which I mentioned
at the conference.
She mentions the Web Development
Helper that Nikhl Kothari developed, and of course the
IE dev toolbar that is similiar to the Firefox toolbar. From
Nikhl’s post on the Helper, it sounds like it requires an ASP.NET
page on the server side?
Of course, the comments echo a common sentiment - give us a
working javascript console for IE! Then we can worry about fancy
extensions - but until we can actually see all the javascript
errors thrown in IE, its still a massive pain tracking down
IE-specific bugs when we only get “property not found at line 65″
and nothing else.
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