[whatwg] Stack trace in window.onerror

[James Greene]

Ian —
I'm curious: would do you say that?  All evergreen browsers already include
a `stack` property on their core `Error` prototypes, so it seems to me that
the only thing preventing us from getting that useful information for
unhandled errors is the fact that `window.onerror` does not provide us with
a real Error object instances (or even fake ones with shell properties in
the case of cross-domain errors).

If I'm mistaken, please clarify.  Thanks!

Sincerely,
    James Greene



On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Nathan Broadbent wrote:
> >
> > The current information passed to window.onerror rarely provides
> > sufficient information to find the cause of the error. The column number
> > argument will be a big step forward, but a stack trace would be
> > especially useful. I would like to add my support for improving the
> > window.onerror arguments, with a fifth argument for stack trace. Is
> > there anything that James or I could do to move this discussion along?
>
> This seems useful, but I don't think it's specific to window.onerror. I
> would recommend approaching the es-discuss list about this.
>
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