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The Webkit team announces a more-comprehensive web inspector with DOM attribute editing, style property editing, and a more-integrated a Javascript debugger (i.e. not Drosera).

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I’m excited; I spent four hours today with Firebug’s JS debugger because it was pointing me completely in the wrong direction.  😖

Wow. Is that a Mac only thing?

Webkit is the engine of safari and chrome and a few other browsers so it’s a cross OS thing 😊

Very cool.  The error console usually catches most of my javascript screw ups, but those additions are very welcome (and they look awesome).

I had an issue where I was using the YUI datatable control to add and delete records from a Java DWR datasource. The datasource was giving me an object with a recursive reference*, which was fine for adding things to the datatable, but threw itself into an endless recursion when it tried to recursively delete an entry. Firebug had me believing it was an event handler issue when it wasn’t at all.

It’s not a common occurance, but dammit all, it was frustrating.

*i.e. var object = { someInnerObject: { parentObject: object; } }