1134411 - Document how to debug desktop webappRT apps

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Apps, defect)

Description

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

It's possible to debug desktop apps running on webappRT like this:

Applications/Mykzilla.app/Contents/MacOS/webapprt -debug 6000

(and then setting up the remote debugger)

However, this is only mentioned briefly in an FAQ: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Marketplace/Options/Open_web_apps_for_desktop#Can_I_debug_my_apps_when_they_are_running_on_a_desktop.3F

It would be great to add a section for this alongside the other pages about debugging different runtimes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Remote_Debugging

It would be a page very similar to this but with the proper command line flags: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Remote_Debugging/Debugging_Firefox_Desktop

Comment 1

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Chris, I wasn't sure where to file a bug like this. Maybe you can move it if necessary.

Comment 2

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

Ack, weirdly enough I never saw this need info at the time! Sorry Kumar ;-|

In any case, I think this is not relevant any more, being about WebRT and all. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Comment 3

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Ha, no worries! It was a classic case of YAGNI.