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On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 11:07 PM 'Domenic Denicola' via blink-dev <
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> Contact [email protected]
>
> Explainerhttps://github.com/whatwg/console/issues/50, or perhaps the
> below summary, should suffice; this is a very small feature.
>
> Specificationhttps://html.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-reporterror
>
> Summary
>
> This function, available in windows and workers, allows developers to
> report errors to the console and any global "error" event handlers, in the
> same way as an uncaught JavaScript exception. It is mainly useful for
> custom event-dispatching or callback-manipulating libraries.
>
> Blink componentBlink>HTML>Script
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EHTML%3EScript>
>
> TAG reviewThis is a minor exposure of browser functionality with a
> one-line spec. I'm happy to file for review if people think it would be
> helpful but I don't think there's much architecturally to discuss here.
>

Agree that the mix of a small feature already landed in HTML with the fact
that we're following Mozilla here means that no TAG review is required here.


>
> TAG review statusNot applicable
>
> Risks
> Interoperability and Compatibility
>
> Low. Mozilla was the one that originally proposed this in the spec PR, and
> has already shipped. It is likely pretty easy to implement for WebKit as it
> is just exposing existing functionality to JavaScript.
>

>
> Gecko: Shipped/Shipping. They pass all the web platform tests on wpt.fyi
>
> WebKit: No signal (
> https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2021-August/031960.html)
>

Strong positive signal from WebKit now:
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2021-August/031961.html


> Web developers: Positive (
> https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/1196#issuecomment-854177687). A
> number of frameworks and libraries have mentioned that they would use this
> in the way it was designed, to better report exceptions in their custom
> callback dispatch code.
>
> Activation
>
> This feature is somewhat polyfillable using explicit
> self.dispatchEvent(new ErrorEvent(...)) plus console.error(), but it won't
> be quite first-class. In the meantime most developers have resorted to
> setTimeout(() => { throw e; }, 0) which loses stack trace information.
>
>
> Debuggability
>
> This feature doesn't need any extra DevTools support. It builds on the
> existing code that makes exception reporting work.
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ?Yes
> <https://wpt.fyi/results/html/webappapis/scripting?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=reporterror>
>
> Requires code in //chrome?False
>
> Tracking bughttps://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1233383
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5634523220934656
>
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