What software you need
To develop JavaScript applications, you need:
- a text editor (we recommend Notepad++ for Windows users and TextWrangler for Mac OS users)
- a web browser with debugging capabilities (we recommend Mozilla
Firefox and its Firebug extension)*
Although you can use any text editor with this book, a text editor that includes syntax coloring and auto-formatting will help you develop applications more quickly and with fewer errors. That's why we recommend Notepad++ and TextWrangler. Both are available free, and both can be used for entering XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
As for the web browser, we recommend Mozilla Firefox because its Firebug
extension is an excellent tool for solving serious debugging
problems. And again, both Firefox and Firebug are free.
To help you install these products, Appendix A provides the procedures that you'll need. In addition, chapter 2 provides a quick, one-page guide to using Notepad++, and chapter 3 provides a tutorial on using Firebug.
*Note: Of course, before you upload web pages
to a live site, you should test them thoroughly with
all the browsers that the site visitors use regularly.
We're just detailing the minimum software you need for
this book.
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