Re: DOMParser RFE issues

Robert Sayre wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>
>> 2. Make the default action of error-events be to log the error to the 
>> console. This way if scripts handles the event and calls 
>> .preventDefault() on them we will not log.
>>
>> I like the second solution best, but it doesn't quite work for the 
>> sax-reader since it doesn't have error-events. But we could do 
>> something similar even for SAX.
> 
> I don't see the use case for SAX console writing. SAX does provide its 
> own error event, via the ErrorHandler interface. I'd rather the 
> consuming application do the logging.
> 
> So far, none of the SAX use cases need/want console logging, and it 
> would be actively harmful in Thunderbird, where a whole sidebar full of 
> feeds can get refreshed at once.

I think the right thing to do for SAX is to use the error-handler if one 
is provided, but report to the console if no error-handler was set. This 
should prevent thunderbird from getting swamped, while making sure that 
someone that doesn't consider errors will get warnings somewhere.

/ Jonas