> -----Original Message----- > From: Julian Reschke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:13 AM > To: Ian Hickson > Cc: Zhenbin Xu; Jonas Sicking; Anne van Kesteren; Sunava Dutta; IE8 > Core AJAX SWAT Team; [email protected] > Subject: Re: responseXML/responseText exceptions and parseError > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Zhenbin Xu wrote: > >> [Zhenbin Xu] Regardless what different browser does today, rich > parsing > >> error is an important feature for developers. I have found it can > >> pinpoint the exact problem that otherwise would have been difficult > to > >> identify when I sent incorrectly constructed XML file. > > > > Mozilla shows the XML error in its error console, which seem more > useful > > than exposing the error to script, really. (I expect other browsers > do the > > same but I haven't checked as recently.) > > That's useful, but IMHO not nearly as useful as giving the script code > the ability to access the information. Sometimes errors happens in the > absence of the developer, and it's useful to have an easy and > automatable way to get the diagnostics. > > BR, Julian >
[Zhenbin Xu] Agree :-) One less dependency.
