What ever happened to debugging?

I frequently browse with the JavaScript Console open on Firefox. It’s invaluable for testing and debugging while I’m doing development and I usually leave it open because I’m too lazy to close and reopen the window when I go back to programming. (Give me a break — there’s no keyboard shortcut to open it back up. ALT-T-C? Who can remember that?)

I’m shocked at how many errors fill up the console when I visit even a few sites. My goal when developing is a big fat 0 warnings or errors in the console. Otherwise, I think I’m just asking for cross-platform problems if not worse. Do other people not pay attention to this sort of thing?

Example:

Error: Selector expected. Ruleset ignored due to bad selector. Source File: http://www.google.com/ Line: 5

Error: Unexpected end of file while searching for closing } of invalid rule set. Source File: http://www.google.com/ Line: 6

Of course Google is god-like in the web world. I sing their praises. Most (if not all) of their programmers could run circles around me. But still, quit filling up my JavaScript Console. I like it nice and pretty.

One Response to “What ever happened to debugging?”

  1. Ian  on March 5th, 2006

    Sometimes I run across these too, but I think most people are OK with them as long as the page is working for them that very second.

    Still… Google? hahahahaha :)