[ale] write to stderr via javascript?

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Thu Aug 6 15:17:48 EDT 2009


Richard Bronosky wrote:
> Are you wanting to do this for a group of testers with whom you can
> collaborate, or do you want to do this for all including anonymous
> users? At Yahoo! we tried to log all JS errors for all visitors with
> all browsers on all platforms. Not an easy task, but we pulled it off
> pretty effectively. We preferred to use hidden functionality built
> into virtually any Yahoo! software you might install (browser toolbar,
> Y! Chat, Y! Music, Y! Widget Engine, Y! Mail helper plugin, software
> installs from ISP partners like AT&T,  SBC, Verzion, British Telecom,
> etc.) but if none of those plugins could be detected it would try to
> use JS to attach and image tag to the DOM whose src was
> http:/blahblah/beacon.php?var1=value&var2=value&etc=etc And beacon.php
> just logged $_GET to a file. We got excellent information about how
> effective we were at our attempts to make JS cross-everything. This
> allow us to create the YUI framework.
> 
> Anyway, my point is that it sounds like all you need is beaconing.
> This is a common design pattern for web apps. Wrap all of your JS in
> try...catch blocks and create a simple server side API for your catch
> to talk to.

Yeah, that sounds like it will work.  I'm looking into the various 
suggestions I've received.  As always, ALE comes through. ;)

> 
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Charles Brian Quinn wrote:
>>> How about this:
>>>
>>> http://getfirebug.com/logging.html
>>>
>>> We use Firebug and this logging extensively when we develop Ruby on Rails apps.
>> Thanks, I'll check it out.
>>
>>
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>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
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