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by slaymaker1907 1095 days ago
I’m definitely saving this page for later. It’s such a nightmare trying to debug issues on iOS. Even just having a JS console on the page is invaluable. In the past, I’ve just used the (expensive) virtualization stuff since I don’t own a Mac when writing web stuff to use on my iPhone. Last year, the File System Access API showed as available on iOS even though the origin private (useless) FS was the only portion available.

Rant: the origin private FS is basically pointless and I believe it was only added to the spec so Mozilla and Apple could claim to support the file system access API. It would maybe be useful if Apple didn’t insist on clearing everything out after SEVEN DAYS. How the fuck is seven days persistent? I have apps that are open (in the background)for longer than that.

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The extension “Web Inspector” provides you with exactly that, albeit a basic version. It has a console.