Re: Feedback on XML content sink plans

Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:17:55 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xml
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Henri Sivonen wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>  Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Henri Sivonen wrote:
>>> I don't know. Do they have any mechanism for the plug-in alert?
>> Not really.  In Firefox it's triggered via random DOM events, as I 
>> understand.  Other Gecko-based browsers don't necessarily have 
>> an equivalent notification mechanism.
> 
> I see. Then it would be pragmatic to either flash to the Yellow Screen 
> of Death or to do what WebCore does (insert the error into the document).

I would really prefer if we showed one of the normal error-pages (such 
as the ones for network errors) when a parse error occurs.

Ideally the page would contain information about on which line and 
column and such the error occurred.

/ Jonas