So...
Today I decided to spend a little time looking at jhs. I am starting
to get oriented, but I still have some issues. I also believe that
other people are using different tools than I am.
I was using Chrome (control-shift-J gives me an interactive javascript
console, and a document browser and editor). And, alternating between
the javascript console and the jhs window, I was able to browse my
active session.
However, things started breaking down when I tried to investigate this
line of code:
function jsubmit(s){jform.jdo.value=jevsentence;jform.submit();}
After some investigation, I have decided that that must be rarely used
code, and I have moved on. But in the process, I have stumbled over
NV which for some reason points at an event handler named ev_log_enter
but I do not see any such event handler in the jijx locale, and I have
not dug in far enough to see if there is some kind of special case
treatment of this event.
Meanwhile, I have noticed that the form requests sent by J to jhs are
missing a header. They should have 'Content-Type:
x-www-form-urlencoded'. Without that, Microsoft's Fiddler refuses to
display the form name/value pairs. My reading of
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1 is that
this is the default content type, so I think this is a fiddler bug
rather than a jhs bug, and I will try and get it fixed in Fiddler, but
the fact that no one has mentioned this issue (that I can remember)
suggests to me that other people are using different tools than I am.
On a related issue: chrome's document browser is a bit clunky -- you
cannot copy and paste text from it. You can work around this by
editting the html of a node, and copying from there, but when I tried
that on the script block that jhs exports chrome ate my newlines
(converting the entire script into a single line comment). Clearly
this is a bug in chrome (and you can work around it by reloading the
page), but -- again -- its presence and the absence of discussion
about this kind of thing suggests other people are not using Chrome
this way.
So...
What tools and techniques do you all use, when working with jhs?
Thanks,
--
Raul
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