January 3, 2001 - Netscape 6 JavaScript Console

Yehuda Shiran January 3, 2001
Netscape 6 JavaScript Console
Tips: January 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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You'll seldom get your JavaScript to work the first time you reload the page. And the task of debugging a script can get quite frustrating without proper debugging tools. One such tool is the JavaScript Console (provided by Netscape 6) which is invoked via the Tasks menu. As you leave the console open it will list all the JavaScript errors that the browser complains about. The following example shows the error of not including the event e in the function parameter list: