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Firebug / Web Developer Toolbar Alternative for Safari

Most of the recent projects I’m working on have requirement to support Safari (under Windows, OS X and iPhone) which unfortunately has some strange rendering biases.

After couple of hours googling around I found the solution and strangely enough it is build in Safari.  It is the so called Web Inspector which in terms of functionality and look is very close to Firebug (with no live editing capabilities) but with quite good net profiler.

However to enable it you have to add couple of lines in one xml file (instructions taken from the Webkit’s site see link bellow):

On Windows, you’ll have make sure that the following lines are in your preferences file at the location

C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\WebKitPreferences.plist

(where <USERNAME> should be your Windows user name):

<key>WebKitDeveloperExtras</key>
<true/>

For more information and details check the Web Inspector page

Happy debugging!

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This entry was posted on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 10:48 pm and is filed under XHTML/CSS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Firebug / Web Developer Toolbar Alternative for Safari”

  1. Dimitar Christoff Says:
    September 13th, 2008 at 3:11 am

    ох, това става и на mac :) мерси пич :)

    p.s. go mootools :)

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