Safari 3.1 Web Inspector - How to activate it

Apple was pushing the last update of the Safari Browser 3.1, But this version come packed with a exceptional tool for developers: the Web Inspector.

If you are familiar with Firebug for Firefox then you will likely been waiting the same for Safari long ago, Well the wait if over now.

This tool will let you look inside the code, css, images, javascript, net requests within a web page. This is very useful when you are debugging a AJAX application or are making the markup in XHTML/CSS.

Here are the instructions to activate the Web Inspector on both OS X and Windows. You have to install the last update of course.

On Mac OS X:

Open up terminal and type this:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

On Windows

Go to:

Documents and Settings\*Your User Name* \Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari

Edit the file “WebKitPreferences.plist” and add the following key:

<key>WebKitDeveloperExtras</key>
<true/>

Via Eric M. on pownce.