Re: Trouble Getting Started

"John J. Barton" <[email protected]> Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:53:12 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.jsdebugger
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
> Steve wrote:

> 
> [warning: less-well-researched stuff coming up:] Other debuggers, like 
> Firebug, opt instead to let you break wherever, and this may or may not 
> lead to expected results (ie an actual breakpoint). Venkman decided to 
> do things the way it does a looong time ago, and I'm not sure whether 
> we're up for changing it - the current system works if you get the hang 
> of it.

Firebug 1.1 (http://fireclipse.xucia.com) marks executable lines (in 
green) analogous to the way Venkman does (with dashes).  Firebug still 
lets you set breakpoints on non-executable lines, since sometimes the 
line numbers are just wrong.