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Bug 16432 - Is it possible that the user agent may supply some details about the error in the simple event? What's the use in in telling the applicationd developer there is an error when you don't give any indication to what the error is?
Summary: Is it possible that the user agent may supply some details about the error in...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-03-19 13:30 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-26 07:19 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-03-19 13:30:22 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#downloading-or-updating-an-application-cache

Comment:
Is it possible that the user agent may supply some details about the error in
the simple event? What's the use in in telling the applicationd developer
there is an error when you don't give any indication to what the error is? 

Posted from: 82.1.12.131
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.78 Safari/535.11
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:15:57 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18096 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-26 07:19:22 UTC 
We can't expose error information for security reasons (intranet topology leak, e.g.). The event is useful to know when to hide UI after an error; the error detail should be given straight to the user and on the console to the developer.