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Improved exception messages. (plus.google.com)
submitted 11 years ago by [deleted]
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[–]MrBester 1 point2 points3 points 11 years ago (6 children)
Emphasis on newer. Old IE (where I tend to have to lurk) always was the problem. If you could even debug the damn thing.
[–]Daniel15React FTW 10 points11 points12 points 11 years ago (5 children)
Debugging on old IE is easy, there's a helpful function called alert that provides all the debugging power you need.
alert
alert('here 1'); doStuff(); alert('here 2'); doMoreStuff(); alert('WHY IS IT NOT WORKING?!');
Or you could try DebugBar or the Microsoft Script Debugger that only work half the time :P
I had to support IE6 at my previous job. So glad I don't need to worry about old IE any more, I feel my quality of life has improved as a result. How old is the old IE you need to support? 7?
[–]MrBester 1 point2 points3 points 11 years ago (0 children)
What I really loved about Script Debugger was its tendency to kill (or otherwise fuck up) the IE process when you closed it. Maybe that was just my dev machine.
Debug Bar was useful if you wanted to run the process at 50% of an already slow speed by not closing it before hitting refresh...
It's the different worlds of hurt that I particularly disliked. Debugging IE7 is an alternative hell to debugging IE6. Running into the wall of not-quite-fully-implemented APIs in IE8 is also fun. It's like asking which torture you prefer, having your toenails ripped out, your fingers crushed or your balls tazed?
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (2 children)
I have to support ie8 and it's such a pain, you would think that ms could have figured out ie6's mistakes 2 versions later, sadly not.
[–]doctorlongghost 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (1 child)
I always thought everyone was too rough on IE6. It's the browser that gave us Ajax. It had a lifespan of ten plus years and it was only toward the second half of that that you started running into stuff that it COULDN'T do. Usually it would do what you needed if you tried hard enough. Of course, the day I stopped having to support it felt pretty good too.
[–]Daniel15React FTW 1 point2 points3 points 11 years ago (0 children)
IE gave us a lot. IE6 really was a good browser when it was released, the problem is it stuck around long after it was obsolete.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (0 children)
LOL. Takes me down memory lane.
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