{"id":437,"date":"2007-09-13T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/000437"},"modified":"2007-09-13T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T01:40:14","slug":"ie-7-has-a-built-in-javascript-debugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/437","title":{"rendered":"IE 7 does not have a built in javascript debugger (update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was debugging the dreated <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/infinitiesloop\/archive\/2006\/11\/02\/Dealing-with-IE-_2600_quot_3B00_Operation-Aborted_2600_quot_3B002E00_-Or_2C00_-how-to-Crash-IE.aspx\">&#8220;Operation Aborted&#8221; error<\/a>, which was appearing in both IE6 and IE7.  (Incidentally, Joel has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2007\/09\/06.html\">great delineation of the three parts of software: design, development and debugging<\/a>.)  I usually do development in FF and then test in IE.  But this bug is specific to IE, which made debugging harder.  I was using IE6, looking at the error message and trying to find the line numbers it referenced.  Pretty miserable.  The fact that I was dealing with external code (Google Analytics, Google Website Optimizer) made it all the more fun!<\/p>\n<p>I was testing at work, and feeling a bit frustrated.  I found a reference to the Microsoft Script Debugger, but wasn&#8217;t able to find it separate from Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n<p>I went home and tested on IE7, and saw the same error.  I thought I&#8217;d try to find the debugger for IE7.  It was easier than I thought&#8211;all you have to do is go to &#8216;Tools&#8217;, then &#8216;Internet Options&#8230;&#8217;, click the Advanced tab and uncheck &#8216;Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer)&#8217;.  Then, when you visit a page with a javascript error, it asks you if you want to debug it.  Fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, that was a vanilla install of IE7.  I&#8217;m thrilled they&#8217;re shipping a debugger, as it will make developing for them just a little bit easier.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: I was incorrect, I think that you need to install the script debugger separately.\u00a0 Link below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[tags]ie7,javascript debugger[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was debugging the dreated &#8220;Operation Aborted&#8221; error, which was appearing in both IE6 and IE7. (Incidentally, Joel has written a great delineation of the three parts of software: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dynamic-languages","category-web-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}