[thelist] JavaScripting in opera7 beta

Liorean Liorean at user.bip.net
Tue Nov 19 16:05:00 CST 2002


Hello, fellow evolters!

I've seen a few people complain about Opera 7 beta not throwing errors.
People did complain about that when nn4 came too, and some people coming
from ie complains about that in moz as well. Well, if you turn on the
javascript error reporting in your preferences, you'll find that opera has
done the same thing as netscape did back then - they removed the error
messages from joe sixpack's view and moved them to a specific console. The
console can be brought up from Window:Special:JavaScript console.

As for the console, it's great. The information provided by it is far more
informative than the netscape/mozilla console (!), and will be an excellent
tool for developing scripts in the future. The scripting engine is still
far slower than both moz and ie, and it lacks a dom inspector and JS
debugger, but otherwise, opera has become a very good platform for
developing JavaScripts.


Mozilla, beware! This might be a stronger competitor than ie...

// Liorean




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