JavaScript debugging on Safari for Windows

Jaime — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:23:16 +0000

Just had to do this and thought I’d post it for anyone who might find it helpful. Here is how you enable the Debug menu if you’re running windows:

1. Navigate to the folder below (replace USERNAME with your user account).
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari

2. open up Preferences.plist and add the following two lines anywhere before the line “”

IncludeDebugMenu

3. Restart Safari and you should now have a Debug menu.

IE7, removeChild and SSL

Jaime — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:12:22 +0000

We recently launched some items into an SSL environment and an IE7 JS bug appeared when deleting a DIV. The bug is slightly difficult to debug in that all versions of IE are especially “blind” when it comes to JavaScript error handling. Here’s the criteria:

page is being requested in SSL mode
div has a background image in the form url(/path/to/image.extension)
the use of the removeChild function

Any time the specific div gets removeChild’d AND it contains a background css style, IE will prompt the user the page contains non-secure elements right before it gets removed.

To get around this, delete the background css style before calling the removeChild function. Microsoft has also released two alternate fixes.

Update: IE8 seems to be affected by another type of javascript manipulation that triggers mixed content warning.

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JavaScript debugging on Safari for Windows

IE7, removeChild and SSL