[webkit-dev] Improving DOM Exception console messages.

[Brendan Eich]

Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org 
> <mailto:ojan at chromium.org>> wrote:
>
>     This is an area where browsers are completely incompatible
>     already. I don't see much benefit from blocking on creating a
>     specification to make this situation better for web developers.
>     It's actually not that big of a deal if the error messages from
>     different browsers are different.
>
>
> If Web developers wanted to know the details of failures on their 
> websites as opposed to on Inspector, wouldn't it better to add some 
> sort of API that could interoperate on all browsers?

Straw proposal for JS:

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:error_stack

Discussion head:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-June/023238.html

Same concerns about information leaks.

/be