DbgCons - JavaScript Debug Console

News

2005-06-18 Version 2.0.8 - first public release.

What?

DbgCons is a JavaScript debug console, for use in browsers. It spawns a console window where you can dump data structures and print all kinds of debugging output from your JavaScript code.

DbgCons requires popup privileges! Or you will not see a thing.

DbgCons is GPL licensed.

Demo

Try it out (requires popup privileges):

Single page In frames

Compatibility

Recently tested to work in the following browsers:

Older versions of Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror have worked in the past, at least to some extent (Opera and Konqueror only grew up recently), but I have not tested them since the code was restructured and labelled version 2.

History

DbgCons dates back to the version 4 browsers where I started developing JavaScript apps. I wasted too much time clicking alert()'s and got too little information from them, so I wrote the console as a replacement for alert().

I decided to release it because I recently (2005) realized it might be useful to others. First I was going to clean it up a little. That ended with an almost complete rewrite, getting rid of some old spaghetti code, and adding some features.

Download

Version Date Download
2.0.8 2005-06-18 dbgcons-2.0.8.tar.bz2 (27K)
dbgcons-2.0.8.zip (38K)

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