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Safari Brings Horrible Debugging To Another Platform

So Apple have released Safari for Windows - really no idea why, but they have. Sadly, just like on Mac it has terrible JavaScript and Java debugging support. In fact, it's worse on Windows than on Mac - anyone know how to turn the debug menu on? Anyone know how to get a Java console to appear?

I'd really, really like to make things work with it but all I can do at the moment is randomly guess at the source of problems.

UPDATE: You can open the JavaScript console with the keyboard shortcut control-shift-J. So JavaScript is now usable, but sadly Java still seems very broken and undebuggable.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 at 9:23 am and is filed under Code and Geek Stuff, Java. You can follow any responses to this entry through the Atom feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Safari Brings Horrible Debugging To Another Platform”

  1. Charlie Says:
    June 12th, 2007 at 10:03 am

    A slashdot post figured it out:

    http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=238141&cid=19468947

    I’ve had trouble with Drosera too, the interface is very opaque. But I find it much better than Opera, where I haven’t really found any debugging tools at all. (Fortunately everything seems to just work much better in Opera.)


  2. Adrian Sutton Says:
    June 12th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    Ah thanks Charlie. I’d just discovered you can still use the shortcut without the debug menu available, but it’s good to have the full functionality. Still no way to get access to the Java console though….


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