All my macy web developmenty friends can never seem to get over the fact that I do all of my initial development and testing of site in firefox. ”It’s so clunky compared to safari”, “It’s so slow” etc. etc. And I have tries safari. I have tried using it many many many times. I would use it. It feels nicer and slicker like they mention, but am I the only one or is the safari debugger bugtastic? It is actually absolutely stunning to me that it ever made it through QA. I find about 50% of the time when I put a breakpoint into my JS in Safari I get the following:
Safari happily breaks, wags it’s tail and asks for a pat on the head, but it completely refuses to show me my code! Where is the code paused? I have no idea, somewhere in this blank screen.
So then there’s the webkit nightlies. People swear by them up and down and promise they will do all the fancy things firebug let you do like edit css inline. So on a few occasions I brave the nightlies. The problem is they always work even worse than my vanilla Safari. Sometimes they don’t even show the JS files as existing. The last time I tried webkit the debugger did the following mysterious thing basically making them totally unusable.
I can’t read that!!! That’s two files in one window… It seems like you would have to *try* to make something that bad happen.
So for all the safari developers out there. Am I missing something??