I believe that Microsoft's inability/unwillingness to allow people to run multiple versions of IE on a single platform (ideally not limited to Windows) is the single biggest impediment to web developers today.
Dave Stig Manning wrote: > matt_thomson wrote: >> Javascript is a much bigger hassle for me than css, I had a lot of >> trouble getting a page like this to work: >> >> http://www.sandersdesign.co.nz/our-work.php >> >> My biggest problem was that in Firefox I just click on the red cross >> and it says: this file -> this line -> this error. >> >> I couldn't find a plugin for IE7 that does the same, and I find the >> "errors on page...view details" message in IE next to useless, has >> anyone found the same problems/ got round it? >> > Yes. It is called Microsoft Web Developer 2008 express edition. > http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/ > It is free and you can perform a 'debug' which will open IE7 and allow > you to visit any website and debug the JS on that page using the familar > Visual Studio style step-through etc. > You will finally get proper messages and nice yellow highlighting of the > place in the page where the code actually broke! > > You have to make IE7 the default browser and then it will be used by the > program. For this reason it is a great idea to have it installed on the > IE7 and IE8 Virtual Machines. > > Regards, > Stig > > > -- Dave Lane = Egressive Ltd = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = m: +64 21 229 8147 p: +64 3 9633733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
