[thelist] Tip: JavaScript - monitoring what your script is doingwithout using alert()

Anthony Baratta anthony at baratta.com
Mon Jan 29 18:28:02 CST 2007


I do similar things when I need quick and dirty output. So welcome to the club. ;-)

I have used the Yahoo logger in the past. It's nice, but only worth the trouble on "large scale" JS Apps, IMvHO.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/logger/

I've also tried Firebug - which is very helpful too because you can add breakpoints. 

http://getfirebug.com/

-----Original message-----
From: "Paul Bennett" Paul.Bennett at wcc.govt.nz
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:40:11 -0800
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Tip: JavaScript - monitoring what your script is doingwithout using alert()

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been in the unfortunate position of having to do some JS development on a live application (simple interface enhancement - no business-critical stuff, fortunately).
> 
> As such, I needed a way to see what my script was doing at certain points (kind of like a breakpoint I guess) without foisting alert()'s on our users.
> 



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