Man, it was 2006 (10 years ago!) when Firebug, Drosera [1] and Web Inspector [2] were all released. There were definitely a lot of people eager to have some tools to make front end web dev easier back then.<p>I never worked with Venkman but I recall all too well the hellish time I had debugging JS back around the turn of the millennium. IE was laughable, if there was an error in a script somewhere it would often just say error on line -1.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;61&#x2F;introducing-drosera&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;61&#x2F;introducing-drosera&#x2F;</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;41&#x2F;introducing-the-web-inspector&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webkit.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;41&#x2F;introducing-the-web-inspector&#x2F;</a>