Economy Size Geek

Ok - so the only reason I installed IEs4Linux was to test out javascript (Hello JSUnit!). One small problem. Some of the popups don’t work on IE6 so I can’t see what the problem is - only that there is a problem.

Someone recommended that I install the MS Javascript Debugger - of course they didn’t provide any instructions so I’m going to write them up - don’t worry it is dead easy!

For the purposes of documentation I’m going to use /home/foobar. This is assumed to be your home directory. So replace foobar with your userid.

cd /home/foobar/.ies4linux/downloads
wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/winscript56/Install/1.0/W9XMe/EN-US/ie401dbg.exe
WINEPREFIX="/home/foobar/.ies4linux/ie6" wine /home/foobar/.ie24linux/downloads/ie401dbg.exe

Now launch IE6 and goto menu Tools -> Advanced

Uncheck "Disable script debugging"


Now you should have some debugging tools available to you. The trick seems to be to put a “debugger();” call in your code to trigger the debugger to see what is going on. So far it makes me miss FireBug all the more, but at least it is something.

This only installs it for IE6. Repeat for the other versions. I’m only interested in testing IE6 so I stopped here.