[OpenLayers-Users] Advice for Debugging IE7 in an OpenLayers Project

Mika Lehtonen mika at digikartta.net
Mon Mar 2 13:22:22 EST 2009


Glad you solved it.
In general, IE is more precise on syntax. For example FF doesn't care 
about extra commas, whereas IE stops into the first syntax error. That 
is, as far as I know.

- mika

Bill Thoen kirjoitti:
> Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock wrote:
>   
>> This post gives instructions for using the free (as in beer) Visual Web
>> Developer Express to make IE debugging a little less painful. I've found it to
>> be quite helpful in tracking down JavaScript issues with IE7:
>>
>> http://www.berniecode.com/blog/2007/03/08/how-to-debug-javascript-with-visual-web-developer-express/
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>   -Nick
>>   
>>     
> Thanks, I managed to find the big problem using Firebug lite (I had 
> mis-deployed one of the files (openlayers.js) in my Windows environment. 
> It was a case of case--I didn't name a file correctly.) And I discovered 
> that the line numbers make sense if you can guess which js module to 
> open (the IE error reporter always says the error is in the main html 
> module, even if it's in a *.js file.)
>
> Thanks for the help, guys!
>
> - Bill Thoen
>
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