The problem, as you wrote is that FireBug itself is JavaScript-based, so it probably dies when there is an actual syntax error in other JavaScript code.

I'm not sure if iOS offers the means necessary to report JavaScript errors in a web view. iOS 7 might have brought something new in this area, but I'll have to look into it. 

Did you see the syntax definition list in the File Properties popover? It isn't divided into language categories though.

How are you using Firebug Lite? In the preview window, you can enable Firebug, but that is really only useful for inspecting elements because it is loaded after the page is loaded and JavaScript is already executed.

Did you try to reference it directly from your HTML as the first script as described on the Firebug Lite site? http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite#Stable

You can already add custom themes to Textastic. This is explained in the manual: http://www.textasticapp.com/v4/manual/lessons/How_...

The "Mac Classic" theme can be found here: https://github.com/kballard/textmate-bundles/blob/...

TextExpander had to change the mechanism that is used to exchange snippets with third party apps. See http://smilesoftware.com/blog/entry/important-chan...

Textastic doesn't use the latest TextExpander SDK yet, so TextExpander doesn't currently work in Textastic. It will be fixed in the next update.

I found the problem: when Textastic sees a setting dictionary that doesn't contain a name and scope, this is considered to be the global theme settings dictionary that defines things as the selection and caret color.

In line 368 ( https://github.com/mekwall/obsidian-color-scheme/b...) there is an empty dictionary. So Textastic ignored the real settings dictionary and used the empty settings dictionary from line 368 instead.

Remove lines 368 and 369 from the theme file and it works!

if the theme contains a "caret" color, this is used instead of the "selection" color. So it should work if you change the "caret" color of the theme.

Sorry, but can you please give me more details about what you want to know?