Tech Thought

Debugging javascript in IE is often like walking on a minefield with a blindfold on. You have no idea where you are when bombs go off. Thankfully, Microsoft provides a debugging tool called Microsoft Script Debugger which makes debugging javascript much easier. You can download the tool from here.

Once installed you get [...]

Often when coding complex javascript you’ll wish you had the ability to debug objects or arrays that you are working on - much like Data::Dumper in Perl or var_dump in php (see previous posts on these topics). Prototype.js provides an easy way to do this using the .inspect() method for hashes and arrays:

var [...]