Enabling Safari Developer Tools

I was trying to diagnose a problem with an application today that only seems to be present in Safari. This lead me to think of Safari's Developer Tools, which I remembered were pretty comparable to Firebug for FireFox. My biggest problem was figuring out how to TURN THEM ON.

 

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DeltaHF's Gravatar This was driving me crazy - thanks for the instructions. Ridiculous that it's so hard to find.
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  • 7/24/11 6:22 PM
Jon Hartmann's Gravatar @DeltaHF Glad I could be of help.
Scott R's Gravatar It's weird that an application preference is in the application's preference dialog.

Having said that, a tip: right-click > Inspect Element is often handier than the Web Inspector button, and doesn't take any space on the menu bar.
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  • 8/25/11 3:01 PM
me's Gravatar Thanks for the helpful post. I wonder why Apple tries to hide this feature...
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  • 11/19/11 10:43 AM
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Jon Hartmann, July 2011

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