Comments on: JavaScript Shell 1.2

By: Sebastián Marconi

Sebastián Marconi — Tue, 03 May 2005 18:35:21 +0000

A minor enhancement: to auto-refresh the shell when the opener context change add this to the funcion go (line 600).
if (! _win.Shell)
init();

Thanks for this great app.

By: davidbisset.com

davidbisset.com — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:50:53 +0000

JavaScript Shell

A command-line interface for JavaScript and DOM… Firefox bookmarklet available. [ via ]
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By: Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:24:00 +0000

I found the background distracting because it would shrink from 2.5 lines to 1 line when I submitted an input. I like the way the input doesn’t change appearance when I submit it, so I took out the background.

By: Prakash Kailasa

Prakash Kailasa — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:10:53 +0000

First of all, thanks for the great piece of work.

One minor observation: I was runing the pre1.2 version (http://www.squarefree.com/shell/shell1.2pre.html) yesterday which had background color of the input area set to a different color, so it is prominently visible. However, in the released version, the background property of the ‘input’ class seems to be commented.

I uncommented it in my copy, but I am curious to find out why it was commented.

By: Screwtape

Screwtape — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:24:18 +0000

This is a purely selfish request, and probably offensive after you’ve put so much hard-work and effort into creating the shell in the first place, and keeping updated – but just in case you get incredibly bored one day – I don’t suppose there’s any way of getting the shell to (a) open in the Firefox sidebar, and (b) still have access to the DOM of the main page?

The bookmarklet version is almost exactly what I want, except I have to keep flipping between tabs to see what I’m doing.

By: Phil Robinson

Phil Robinson — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:50:26 +0000

Great! I watched your website all day yesterday hoping that there’d be an update. When I first tried to run shell after updating Firefox to 1.0.3, I thought something had gone terribly wrong with the install, but then I realized that some of the bug fixes must have ‘broken’ the shell. Thanks for the great work!