Thanks Jeremy. It's a good idea to expain *reason* in messages. "As a result of an error, you need to restart Tiddlywiki to protect your data" would be more communicatively effective. Or if you feel "need to" is too coercive "should" conveys the notion of recommendation nicely. If you are uncomfortable addressing the user directly, then "Tiddlywiki should be restarted to protect its/your data" may suit. I prefer the more direct approach.
As i've noted elsewhere "This is embarrassing" is not useful. You have no need to be embarrassed on my behalf - or indeed, your own, in the rare event that the error originates in TW core. The problem with being half clever (me) is that you make a lot of bad guesses. Sorry you have to suffer for them. The information "Node was not found" is really not useful to the casual user, so there's no value in presenting it. The user who can make use of it will easily find it in the console. (I would probably have been asking about it anyway, despite that) Cheers. On Thursday, 9 March 2017 22:14:58 UTC+11, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Andrew > > The “red screen of death” is triggered by untrapped JavaScript errors. In > general, there are no guarantees as to the internal state of the system > after an error because it will have been left in an intermediate state. > That’s why the only good general advice is to restart TiddlyWiki. In > practice, some errors are more recoverable than others, but continuing > after an RSOD is inherently risky. > > Roughly half the time when I get the RSOD, when I click on the offending > tiddler to amend it, I get another RSOD telling me Node is not defined. I > know that; I don't use it. I do my development in the browser. Why do I > need to see this message, and more particularly, why is not having Node - I > thought it was optional - so serious as to cause an RSOD? > > > The error message here is referring to a variable called “Node”, which is > part of the standard DOM specification, and nothing to do with Node.js. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > Thanks, Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c31d7e18-23ac-4da1-b05c-9271f80e1445%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c31d7e18-23ac-4da1-b05c-9271f80e1445%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e39c7db4-238b-42ec-87bd-ca56b21f65e4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
