| The first "on-device" mobile web application debugger is now available! |
| Written by Kai Hendry, Aplix |
| Monday, 21 December 2009 05:52 |
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You are developing a Web application on a mobile device, however the Javascript is failing and you don't know why. Naturally you want to attach a debugger, set some break points and debug your application. Like you do already with Firebug. However you can't do this on any mobile device I can think of! Sure you can add alerts and "printf" your way to the answer, though that's an inefficient use of your time. Projects are likely to fail without a debugger. And yet no Web runtime on a mobile device offers this facility. Failing Javascript is all the rage right now, since there is a bunch of fresh Javascript APIs being made available to Web developers. Enter the BONDI SDKNews from the BONDI SDK project might be scarce lately, though recent developments include on device debugging. The debuggable device Web runtime is not available yet, though the BONDI SDK Eclipse plugin from version 5 supports this. Don't believe me? Well you can try the BONDI SDK debugger by launching Google Chrome, like so: `chrome --remote-shell-port=9222` and configuring a remote Javascript debug launch in Eclipse. We use the same debug protocol as Google. The LiMo foundation is driving Web technologies on mobiles by investing effort in a mobile toolchain for Web developers.
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