Debugging IE7 is a pain
I hate Internet Explorer with an ever burning passion. It’s not the fact that it pretty much rejects every kind of javascript I compose, or the fact that it renders CSS without any kind of pattern or sequence. No, that’s not it at all. I just hate the fact that there is absolutely no native way to debug your content to get it to work.
Now, while IE7 was a vast improvement over IE6 (I don’t even bother messing with those users, sorry guys, you’re pretty much hopeless, even Google ditched you), it still sucks horribly. For developers, it is not very friendly. IE8, on the other hand, was god sent. However, IE8 has a good rendering engine, leaving IE7’s behind. Also, based on statistics, IE7 still holds just as much traffic as IE8 (even being a year after launch) and less than half of the traffic of both IE6 and IE7 combined (w3). Now, one can honestly say that Microsoft sucks at pushing out updates to their users but that is ridiculous – even Opera can do it without much effort.
Anyway, I’m looking for some tips to debug in IE7 (other than Visual Studio). I have tried both companion.js and debug-bar so I’m going out on a limb here.