As Mario says, the silent failure is ultimately part of html's philosophical approach. There is some interesting histories of html that explains this.
We may expect a debug mode however I think this has being outsourced to Browser inspect tools. Regards Tony On Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 1:02:20 AM UTC+11, PMario wrote: > > On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 7:48:01 PM UTC+1, joearms wrote: > ... > > >> Noisy errors stop the program execution with a huge red error text >> telling you what went wrong. Quiet errors just swallow up the error and say >> nothing. >> >> As a general design principle, I believe that all plugins etc should >> generate noisy errors if they detect an error condition. >> > > You are right, but TW chooses a way, similar to, how browsers work. ... If > a browser doesn't understand something, they just ignore it silently. ... > > As you found out, that's sometimes painful for programmers and creators. > ... > > But it's convenient for consumers. If they see the red flag as in the > ViewTemplate <https://tiddlywiki.com/#%24%3A%2Fcore%2Fui%2FViewTemplate>, > they think: OK it's broken, close the page and never come back. > > -m > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywikidev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywikidev@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/b67e5fcb-f5a3-4e88-9a03-816a81b50b8d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
