On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Nicholas Wehr <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > >
With http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite you can debug on other browsers aswell. david -- David Schmidt | http://www.fm5.at _______________________________________________ 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/
