Mike Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > S�ren Kuklau wrote: > > > > > For those who don't know what DOM is, the DOM inspector is useless. It's > > rather a tool for html and javascript authors. > > > And a damm fine one at that. The DOM Inspector, Venkman (the JS > debugger) and "dump()" make Moz an insanely great web development > platform (apologies to Steve Jobs). >
I'm sorry, but I just installed the DOM inspector, *and* the debugger, and I can't see any use for it at all. What I wanted was a quick and easy way to find elements on the page using Javascript. It's always a challenge deciding if and when you need to use window.document.layers[0].forms[0].elements[0]... etc., and I wanted a quick way to see what the DOM looked like. Not from an HTML perspective, which is nothing more than a trimmed version of well-indented code, but the Javascript Object version, which doesn't seem to offer any help at all in the DOM Inspector. As for the debugger, if you can't add a watch an object and expand its properties, what good is the debugger at all? Sure, I can throw in a break point or see where the code is throwing an exception, but how the heck can I *debug* that error if I can't see anything about the current state of the page? I feel like I'm missing some nugget of excellence hidden in these products, but I simply can't find any useful bits at all. Jon Krivitzky
