Comments on: Safari’s hidden debug menu

By: Krishen

Krishen — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:44:13 +0000

Whoops — figured out the problem… during a copy-paste from another file I’d inadvertently introduced an element onto my page called ‘console’ — which, needless to say, being a regular old div, doesn’t know what to do with a “log()” function call :)

By: Krishen

Krishen — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:55:56 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Maybe this was put in with one of the point updates, but my version of Safari (2.0.3) seems to display the filename just fine. [screenshot].

Found your page while looking for a solution to the problem shown in that screenshot — for some reason, I’m having trouble logging to the debug window. Here’s the javascript snippet in question:

if(window.console)
{
window.console.log( “patientViewContainerElementWidth: ” );
}

Can anyone see a problem with that? The weird part is, the example given on Apple webpage works just fine.

By: andre laroche

andre laroche — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:39:12 +0000

Geoff, You seem to know many answers. I’m hoping you can help me on a problem my web guys don’t know how to fix: My web programers are very good with javascript on the PC. I have a site that has qtvr’s and qt’s on pages. these work on pc (IE, Firefox) and on Mac Firefox. They DO NOT work in any Mac Safari (osx 10.3.9+)!! the test web site is http://work.hostbreak.com/sws/stage…otion_33_0.html , . In Safari all we get is a big “Q” where they should play and a little “q” in the top left of the page. They are using javascript and are stumped. They have an admin to allow me to self load images and pages. That works fine for still images and qtvr/qt the problem only exists in Safari!!. Any thoughts or links to where they can go to get the right answers, they have been trying for 2 months. As you can imagine I am very frustrated, can you point us in the right direction.
Thanks.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:42:47 +0000

If you click the link it pops open a source window and goes to the error. This should work for multiple files I would think.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:38:03 +0000

Yeah I think you are on your own in figuring out which js file the errors come from.

By: santini

santini — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:35:34 +0000

That’s great! But if there are many javascript files on the page, how do you know which file the error occured in?
Is this all the javascript help I can expect from Safari?