Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Category: IE
The IE team has released a new Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar.
This is the final release of the toolbar, but the comments in that thread talk about issues, not only with the toolbar itself, but also with Silverlight.
The screencast of the tool is a Silverlight application, and some folk can’t get it working. Ah, version 1.0 software.
3.1 rating from 38 votes
Unfortunately there is no change since the last version (beta3). And besides it being useless to me, it has been known to mysteriously close my browser.
All I really want from them is something as effect as the FF error console.
There is nothing about javascript errors, the real problem on ExploDer…
I have been using the IE developer toolbar for about a year now. While the DOM traversal is semi-useful the rest of the functionality seems to be a pathetic attempt to mimic Firebug. And while I am on the topic of pathetic attempts, lets not forget to mention the IE script debugger.
The only useful tool I use with IE is fiddler (http://www.fiddlertool.com/).
The IE developer toolbar does have one feature I really like: the ability to edit any attribute of a DOM element.
Regarding JavaScript debugging, it’s unfortunate that there isn’t a free version of Microsoft Visual Studio’s JavaScript debugger. It’s the best JS debugger I’ve used.
And yes, Fiddler is a GREAT tool. Also, it works with any browser, not just IE. You simply have to set the proxy manually in other browsers.
Play it a little bit, not that bad. It is better than nothing.
Michael, I agree that the Visual Studio JS Debugger is a great tool (it’s all I used before Firebug). And there is a free version - Windows Script Editor is free and looks/operates nearly identically.
Sadly, this toolbar release offers nothing over the lame version we currently have.
Speaking of, whats up with this activex control trying to run everytime I come to the ajaxian homepage.
Yeah, Steve, I’m familiar with Windows Script Editor too. IIRC it does lack one of my favorite features in Visual Studio: intraline JavaScript single stepping and breakpoints.
As an example, suppose you are single stepping through this contrived one-liner:
for( var i = 0; i
I give up. Stupid comment form. Ajaxians, you know people would like to be able to post code samples in comments here!
it causes my IE to crash unexpectedly
This tool is fake. Doesnt work at all… :/
Cannot seem to trace a style to a specific file or block? What?
It is quite limited in terms of functionality. Its no match for web developer toolbar for firefox. Its 100 times better than this one.
Yup, firefox one is mucho better
Of course it can’t compete with FireFox Web Developer Toolbar, let alone Firebug.. still, it’s better than nothing and I thank the elements outlining features for saving me much time in finetuning the designs!
This thing does not allow to edit like Firebug does. I have used the previous version of this and it used to allow creating new attributes but not this one. The new attributes dissapear just like that. I cant imagine this the best they have come up with???.