What do you think of the idea of a bookmarklet debuger?

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What do you think of the idea of a bookmarklet debuger?

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What I mean is, do you think it's a good idea; to have a cross browser JavaScript debug like firebug? Except firebug will have it's advantages; I'm sure you can pull of some of the things in firebug with JavaScript. If one made a debugger, not, necessarily, as good as firebug but as good as it can be.

I always wanted to start a project like this. It would give IE, Safari and Opera all the same debugger.

Okay, I just thought that maybe I'd get some opinions on this. :D
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superdezign wrote:Like, Firebug Lite?
Yeah like firebug lite, but firebug lite is not a bookmarklet and, last time I checked, it didn't even have a DOM inspector.

Obviously you're not feeling me here.
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JellyFish wrote:Obviously you're not feeling me here.
Hehe, well I have no idea what a bookmarklet is. I just skimmed Wikipedia, and I'm assuming it wouldn't require having Firebug Lite installed server-side? That'd be good.

The only reason I use Firefox is for Firebug. If I could use it whenever I wanted on other browsers, I just might have a reason to stop hogging all of my computer resources with a web browser.
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superdezign wrote:
JellyFish wrote:Obviously you're not feeling me here.
Hehe, well I have no idea what a bookmarklet is. I just skimmed Wikipedia, and I'm assuming it wouldn't require having Firebug Lite installed server-side? That'd be good.

The only reason I use Firefox is for Firebug. If I could use it whenever I wanted on other browsers, I just might have a reason to stop hogging all of my computer resources with a web browser.
Exactly.

A bookmarklet is a bookmark-applet; a bookmark with JavaScript in it instead of a URL. So yes it wouldn't have to be installed on the server side. You would just need to click the bookmark and it loads.

I've have seen Web Inspector on Safari and it makes me kind of excited because if it ever turns out like a firebug then I could use Safari instead of Firefox; Firefox is getting kind of old. Safari has a lot of css features which would make it fun. :D

It's either starting my own debugger in this world or work on Web Inspector. But then again, there are probably tones of people out there already working on Web Inspector, and even if we all had a debugger for Safari we wouldn't have what's most need right now: A debugger for IE.
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Re: What do you think of the idea of a bookmarklet debuger?

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Looks like I was to late, or more accurately, to lazy. :P

http://ajaxian.com/archives/pidebugger-cross-browser-debugging
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