Re: Error handling - how much?

[salva]

in reply to Error handling - how much/where/how?

there is an easy response for that: handle errors when you know how, otherwise just die!

There is only one thing worse than an script that doesn't work, and it is an script that seems to work but that actually doesn't.

[monarch]

Amen brother.

And I hit an excellent example of that recently. I was writing a webpage in which 70 odd input elements had to be submitted. Mozilla was GETting the result with no problems, but when I switched to Internet Explorer I had a problem. If I typed no text in my form I could submit it. But if I typed text in my form, IE would sit there blankly while I pressed my submit button.

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So die.. die ungracefully, or error someone.. let the world know that something unexpected happened!