I see - sounds really cool and I fell into using firebug before I really got a chance to use it to it's fullest. firebug also allows for javascript debugging which was pretty critical for me, since I'm kind of a debugger junkie ;)
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, James Spath <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Matthias Dietrich <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Nicholas, > > > > Am 24.06.2010 um 18:54 schrieb Nicholas Wehr: > > > >> I used charles proxy as well until I discovered how awesome the mozilla > addon firebug is. unbeatable json (xhdr) and network activity analyzer. > handles ssl too check it out! > >> > >> jim, is there a charles feature that stands out above firebug? I only > used for one project until I re-discovered firebug... > > > > I haven't bought Charles yet but used it for a longer time. A big plus > is that you can display the content depending on its type (eg. JSON and AMF > as collapsable tree, but doesn't has a display mode for every type, I > guess). And it's browser independent so you can test with Safari and other > clients (like native apps!), too. You can record transferred data, stop > recording, open new sessions while the old ones are still present. If FF > crashes or you navigate to a different page, Charles is still there and > showing the recorded and opened sessions. > > > > Firebug is nice for single request tracking (yes, you can let the > requests be "sticky", but that's not the same and a bit ugly, even sometimes > it doesn't show the content if there's some), CSS, Javascript and HTML, but > if you need to debug more intensive and longer I would prefer something like > Charles. > > What Matthias said :) > > The biggest features for me are a full history beyond the current page > load ... and also the ability to redirect requests to different > servers or even to a local file on your machine. > > Don't get me wrong, I use Firebug all the time, but Charles definitely > has its uses. > > - Jim > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >
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