Johan Sundström wrote:
> On 5/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a JSON file that works in Firefox but when the Exhibit
>> presentation I use it with is viewed in Internet Explorer (both 7 and 6)
>> an Object Error is given and nothing is displayed. I have validated the
>> file with Babel and it is syntactically correct. Do you have any advice
>> and or any knowledge of this issue presenting its self?
>>     
>
> The always asked return question: do you have or can you craft some
> page on a url you could share with us for debugging the issue? (The
> rest of the comment might quite likely not be at all relevant to you.)
>
> If you're using the 2.0 api, I've had reports from users about IE7 (at
> least) bailing out reporting something like that (for
> application/jsonp based exhibits of mine, at least).
>
> To David: the use of catch()ing errors and routing them to alert()
> breaks debugability of the _actual_ error not only for Firefox, but IE
> as well. I've tried setting up an IE with a debugger (see
> http://www.berniecode.com/blog/2007/03/08/how-to-debug-javascript-with-visual-web-developer-express/
> for a tutorial on how to do that, by the way), but ended up with the
> same problem there.
>
> It's possible that rethrowing them after the alert (perhaps only on
> detecting an url parameter errors=throw) might make it more
> debuggable; I haven't experimented much yet. I'd somehow want to find
> a solution to this though, as I presently just glaze over when IE has
> issues. Most of my hacking at the core parts is for fun, and debugging
> IE with hands tied fails that threshold with a margin.
Good idea about errors=throw. Do you think that will get IE's debugger 
to the original exception location or to the location of rethrow?

David


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