[wp-hackers] JavaScript bugs

[Drew]

Well since you asked, there's a brand-new Codex article for just such a
thing.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Your_Browser_to_Diagnose_JavaScript_Errors

It has directions for identifying JavaScript errors in the top 5 browsers.

Drew


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, William P. Davis <will.davis at gmail.com>wrote:

> Chrome dev tools are fantastic for this as well - better than Firebug, I'd
> say. Both will give you the line number in the script where the failure
> occurred, and at least Chrome allows you to click on that to be taken
> directly to the error.
> Sent from my BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com>
> Sender: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:21:43
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Reply-To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] JavaScript bugs
>
> Hi there,
>
> I don't know if you tried this but if you got firefox installed, you may
> want to look at firebug[1].
>
> Also if you think that there may be some caching going on, I would try
> pressing Ctrl F5 to do a force refresh..
>
>
> [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/
>
> Regards,
> Daniel Fenn
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Dobromir Yordanov <dyordan1 at ramapo.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > Hey guys and gals,
> >
> > Anyone know of a good way to find out what JS function is responsible for
> > a certain behavior other than going through the JS files and trying to
> > guess? I'm trying to patch up some JS bugs on Wordpress and it seems a
> bit
> > trickier than PHP patching. Also, whatever I change doesn't seem to be
> > reflected when I reload so I'm guessing some caching kicks in (other than
> > my browser's which should be disabled). Any ideas how to get around that?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ~Dobri
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