My brother works on the chrome team. Are you saying there is something
improper about the work he is doing?
On 9 Jul 2013 13:38, "Greg Keogh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank chaps, I'll have to look into Chrome, although I've never previously
> allowed it only my work machines because it's like a virus, everything from
> Google is like a virus.
>
> I would like to mention that in the previous hour I've been cobbling
> together my price-calc html page, I have needed to run a web search on how
> to code each individual line: set and get a checkbox, detect textbox
> changes, disable a control, set text in a span, etc. all absolutely
> fundamental things you need to do. The inconsistency and patternless
> quagmire is beyond human endurance. Did the inventors of JavaScript, jQuery
> and DOM invent this stuff to hamper the progress of the human race? The
> inventors of this mess should be hunted down if they're still alive and
> strangled with their own entrails. Examples that need a search for each
> line and I find absolutely no consistency at all (the first one is utterly
> cryptic):
>
> Is a checkbox checked -- $('chk1').is(':checked')
> Set text in a span -- $('#span1').text(thevalue)
> Set text in a textbox -- $('$text1').val(something)
> Disable a control -- $('radio1').attr('disabled', show)
>
> Even worse, most search results have screenloads of people arguing about
> what bit of sample code is correct. There are sometimes 6 suggestions of
> how to do a single thing, and 4 of them don't work. The official jQuery API
> server is offline which makes my experience even better. I'm sure I'll feel
> better once I can see some sort of pattern in the jQuery/DOM chaos.
>
> Greg K
>
> On 9 July 2013 13:04, Jorke Odolphi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Chrome has by far the best debugging experience – very similar to how
>> it works with .net – and its the same experience on each platform -
>> (although osx makes you do unnatural acts with key combinations). I've
>> found I've been writing code on the console to validate it, and its super
>> easy for debugging ajax as well. Some very nice profiling things there as
>> well – really lets you tune the rendering etc.
>>
>> I tried the tool chaining with VS and it was just too hard to make it
>> work, although I do rate VS as the best JS editor (before sublime :) )
>>
>>
>> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: ozDotNet <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tuesday, 9 July 2013 12:31 PM
>> To: ozDotNet <[email protected]>
>> Subject: jQuery debugging
>>
>> I'm trying to create a single html page with jQuery inside to
>> interactively calculate a price total based upon the settings of other
>> controls. It's a classic sort of "make you order" page.
>>
>> Can I get a familiar debugging experience like I'm used into in Visual
>> Studio while writing this page and scripts? I haven't written any
>> JavaScript for years and I have no idea what's available to help me these
>> days. There must be some people in this group writing plain JavaScript or
>> jQuery in their html pages, so what do you do to keep productive?
>>
>> Greg K
>>
>>
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