> Meanwhile, integrated devtools started with Chrome in 2008, two years after Firebug was released in 2006.
I'm very very sure integrated devtools could be traced back to WebKit Inspector Tool[1] in 2006 (with Drosera[2], the JavaScript inspector, being separate application). Then in 2007, the WebKit team rebuilt the Inspector Tool into Web Inspector[3] and merge Drosera into it. Chrome inherited the Web Inspector when it was released in 2008. I even remembered the first few versions of Chrome still has the Mac metal looks (even when running on Windows).
It's already been mentioned; the comment about integrated tools first showing up in Chrome was off.
But Safari wasn't the first either. WebKit Inspector was built under Dave Hyatt after being lured to Apple. It was meant to bring the tools available to Mozilla developers over to WebKit/Safari. Joe Hewitt's DOM Inspector was checked in to the Mozilla codebase in 2001, and Robert Ginda's Venkman JS debugger in 2003.
(After leaving Netscape, Hewitt took a second run at integrating both tools' featuresets, and that's where Firebug came from.)
But Safari wasn't the first either. WebKit Inspector was built under Dave Hyatt after being lured to Apple. It was meant to bring the tools available to Mozilla developers over to WebKit/Safari. Joe Hewitt's DOM Inspector was checked in to the Mozilla codebase in 2001, and Robert Ginda's Venkman JS debugger in 2003.
(After leaving Netscape, Hewitt took a second run at integrating both tools' featuresets, and that's where Firebug came from.)