Just got this from Ajaxian.
IE has always had the crappiest set of JavaScript debugging tools forcing developers to try to troubleshoot issues via alert() or jumping to FireFox w/ Firebug to troubleshoot. Well, Jean-Fabrice Rabaute has a solution. He just released Companion.js, a debugging toolbar for IE!
Companion.JS (pronounced Companion dot JS or CJS) is a Javascript debugger for IE.
The current version is 0.2, adds the following features to IE :
- The toolbar :
- Menu to customize the DebugBar and check updates.
- Toggle the Development bar
- Alert on javascript errors
- Send page screenshot by email
- Color picker
- Resize IE window
- Zoom page
- View source code
- View MSHTML integrated ActiveX source code
- The Development bar :
- View HTML DOM Tree
- View original ad interpreted source code
- View tab attributes
- Edit tab attributes
- View HTTP and HTTPS headers
- View page cookies
- Validate html code for main page and frames/iframes
- List all javascript functions
- View javascript function code
- Execute javascript code in the currently loaded page
- Get information about currently loaded page
I'm definitely giving this toolbar a shot as anything that helps debugging in IE easier is worth a try.
