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Our web development workflow is completely broken

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Re: Our web development workflow is completely broken

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Post by wmt »

The workflow cycle suggested in the article is broken, but the normal web development workflow is not. I would definitely not restart my editor and browser after every edit!

The workflow is actually just like with any other programming environment. You make changes to the code with your editor and then you reload the page or restart the application. If you really need to, you can use a debugger to see what's going on.

Fancy integration between the editor and the debugger is nice, but it hardly breaks the workflow.

Re: Our web development workflow is completely broken

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Post by ritchiea »

thristian wrote: post #4

A small nitpick: the article lists the "IE Developer Toolbar" for IE6 first, and suggests that everybody else's development tools followed that model. In fact, the earliest reference I can find to the IE Developer Toolbar suggests[1] that it was released in early 2007, while the Firebug version history[2] shows Firebug v0.2 released in January 2006, so it's about a year older than IE's developer tools. Even if Firebu…

And once again the top comment doesn't do anything to continue the thoughtful discussion that began in the article, instead providing a pedantic correction.

Re: Our web development workflow is completely broken

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Post by benatkin »

kevinburke wrote: post #11

I am getting "Application error" when trying to view this post, which proves the point, I guess.

Indeed. My first thought was "speak for yourself". I wanted to read the article before writing my justification for my opinion, but I suppose this works.
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