ie6/ie7 developer toolbar

[K0bo]

The firebug for Internet Explorer.
Just found it and spreading the news :)

Though using Ext (crossbrowser); in some situations IE still behaves different in some situations. Finding the root of problems causes me a lot of headaches. This tool comes in very handy!

Get it at MS (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en)

[tobiu]

hi kobo,

this tool was postet in several threads before.
i tried it out too and it has some features of firebug.

but, my main problem was:
is it able to debug javascript at all?

i mean, it shows html-errors properly.
but that does not help with ext at all, since my whole "page" has a body and div tag within in plain html, thats it.

if i have bugs lile a "killing comma", this tool says nothing!
i just have the standard ie-yellow triangle, saying there is a bug in line 10.450 (or similar).

there the problem is: the ie does not distinguish between js-included files and the main document. so you do not even know in what including-file the bug might be.


correct me if i am wrong, i would be really glad to hear that the tool can tell at least the position of bugs...


kind regards, tobiu

[devnull]

wow, looks handy, thanks for the tip.
I do most of my dev work in firefox/firebug, but of course we only officially support ie internally so i have to test in it as well.

[BernardChhun]

http://extjs.com/learn/Manual:Resources#Various_debugging_tools

and that toolbar doesn't help in debugging js errors.

this one does it but you need to pay for it : http://www.ieinspector.com/dominspector/index.html

[PartickThistle]

Found this: http://www.debugbar.com/ for IE.

Free for non commercial use. Better than Microsoft's effort and on par with the IE inspector, but not as good as Firebug.

Microsoft Script Debugger works reasonably well, too.

[BernardChhun]

thanks Patrick,

that one looks great. I'll have to try it one day!

I've added that plugin in the manual by the way: http://extjs.com/learn/Manual:Resources#DebugBar_-_IE_plugin

EDIT:
I'm trying it right now and I find it a bit annoying that it is displayed in the left side bar...I have to open the side bar pretty wide to see the data correctly...which means cropping down the Web page itself. Sadly, There's no config option to move it down there :(

plus it seems AJAX calls aren't catched in the HTTP(s) tab and complex javascript object aren't seen in the script tab.

frankly speaking, I'm a bit disappointed by this tool. I wrote a lengthy email to "Core Services (The company that made it)" describing these problems. Let's hope they will improve it.

[jon.whitcraft]

Nice find. I was just looking for something like this for IE. I just wish someone would port Firebug over... oh well i guess i can just wish..

[JeffHowden]

plus it seems AJAX calls aren't catched in the HTTP(s) tab and complex javascript object aren't seen in the script tab.

I'm also annoyed by the fact that it sits on the left rather than below. As for AJAX (or any HTTP requests, really), I much prefer Fiddler as the depth of information available is unparalleled.

[kape123]

I just tried every toolbar suggested here and from my point of view they are simply -> useless.

I dunno why Microsoft released IE Developer Toolbar without JavaScript debugging... that's pretty dumb decision...

So I recommend everyone to stick to FireBug while developing and install Microsoft Script Editor (http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+script+editor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) for verifying scripts in IE... it starts up whenever something went wrong in IE (detects extra commas) and has everything you have in Firebug except traffic tracking and navigation between referenced *.js files (or I've missed these two options... correct me if I'm wrong :)).

cheers...