This is a special Tool of the Week, because it focuses on a sub-set of a larger tool. This week’s Tool of the Week is the console feature of the Firefox extension Firebug by Joe Hewitt, Rob Campbell, FirebugWorkingGroup.
What it does:
Allows you to run commands and play with the JavaScript on a web page, as well as output information from a webpage through a dos/shell style console; all from within the browser window. It’s as if you “opened the hood” of the browser and started running diagnostics/talking to the robot that controls the page display.
When you need it:
- prototyping JavaScript
- debugging JavaScript
- writing JavaScript
How to use it:
Please note that this doesn’t even BEGIN to scratch the surface of the power of this little tool. Check out the documentation, here and here.
The Example:
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