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by yorwba 2577 days ago
To enable experimentation like that, I'd like to see mobile browsers include developer tools as well. More and more people grow up using a smart phone as their main computing device, and I think they should be given the opportunity to tinker with that as well.

I realize that developer tools are information dense and fitting them on a smartphone screen would require a significant effort to redesign the layout (especially when you want to see the website, the code you're editing and the on-screen keyboard at the same time), so browsers might not want to spend effort to include a niche feature like that. Maybe it would be possible to connect to the remote debugger with an on-device client? Then it could be developed as a separate project.
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rnotaro 2577 days ago
You can use Chrome Remote Debugging to access the developer console for a mobile device.

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remo...

You can also load Eruda with Javascript. https://github.com/liriliri/eruda

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yorwba 2576 days ago
The problem with remote debugging is that it apparently requires a separate device, whereas I was thinking about people who only have a smart phone. That's what I meant by "Maybe it would be possible to connect to the remote debugger with an on-device client?"

The Eruda approach to inject the debug console with a oneliner in the address bar seems like a possible solution, though. Thanks.

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