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> Compare that to JavaScript, which will happily fail if you use new syntax or a missing function, and thus web pages which rely on JS often show up as just a f
by witty_username 10y ago
> Compare that to JavaScript, which will happily fail if you use new syntax or a missing function, and thus web pages which rely on JS often show up as just a full screen of white when something goes wrong, which it frequently does.
Isn't that more due to failure to handle exceptions and display errors to users?
- cbsmith 10y ago> Isn't that more due to failure to handle exceptions and display errors to users? You could describe it that way.... or you could describe it as failing to have reasonable default logic for handling faults & gracefully degrade.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoSilent failure or not, the page still doesn't work.