standardizing Error.stack or equivalent

[John Lenz]

John did you want to propose an alternative?  Maybe:
A "name" parameter for inline scripts and eval?  This might work for
"sourceUrl" but might be limiting for "soureMappingUrl".



On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 6:25 PM, John Barton <johnjbarton at google.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark.  I implemented the first sourceURL support, for Firebug back in
> the day. It's a kludge we worked out because there was no alternative. It
> forces debuggers seek the ends of buffers even if they are millions of
> bytes and even if the the name does not turn out to be the one the dev was
> interested in. It forces developers to use a whacky naming 'API' involving
> funky characters and special strings.
>
> //# sourceURL woulds well in Firebug, Chrome Devtools, and IE as far as I
> know.  It fails in Chrome devtools in two cases, for early compiles before
> devtools is opened (known limitation) and when using the relatively new
> devtools workspaces in some complicated cases. Otherwise you should report
> bugs if it fails for you.
>
> When new API arrives we don't have to miss the opportunity to do better.
>
> Your references also include source-map discussion which uses same kludgy
> API. Based on my experience, I think the low reliability of source-maps is
> partly due to difficulty in testing and reporting bugs with the generated
> maps. I thought the maps I created for traceur were fine, but later I
> discovered that the ends of ASTs were not handled correctly but all the
> user can observe is "the sourcemap gives wacky results, sometimes".
>
> jjb
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Sebastian Zartner <
> sebastianzartner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi John, supposedly <
>>> https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/javascript-debugging#breakpoints-dynamic-javascript>
>>> and <
>>> http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps/#toc-sourceurl>
>>> document the emerging de facto std for providing this name to the existing
>>> API. However, I have not seen it work on any browser. See point #5 at <
>>> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2014-March/036642.html>.
>>> Am I doing something wrong here that account for my not seeing this, or
>>> does it in fact not work anywhere?
>>>
>>
>> sourceURL and displayName are also working in Firefox. Not consistently
>> yet, though. FWIW Firebug is making use of these in it's 2.0 alpha 1
>> version. See
>> http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug/firebug-2-support-for-dynamic-scripts/
>> .
>> Would be great if these could be standardized.
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> es-discuss mailing list
> es-discuss at mozilla.org
> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/attachments/20140331/110e5876/attachment-0001.html>