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Debugging HTML5 running in iOS from Windows with Chrome dev tools!

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In order to debug HTML5 running in Safari on iOS, I used to connect the iOS device to my Mac, open Safari, go to Developer menu(needs to be activated from Safari Preferences) and open the page. You can find detailed steps how to do this on internet. I tried to remote debug HTML5 with other tools (Telerik has one), but the best way is with an utility called  ios-webkit-debug-proxy  which uses Chrome dev tools! You can find it here  https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy  and its Windows port: https://github.com/artygus/ios-webkit-debug-proxy-win32 It allows you inspect the WebKit (either the Safari or UIWebViews) running on the iOS device from your Windows machine with Chrome dev tools. This utility connects to the WebKit for inspection. Steps (most of these are written in https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy ): Go to  https://github.com/artygus/ios-webkit-debug-proxy-win32 You can either get the compiled version or build from the source. I chose to built it from s