[ale] write to stderr via javascript?

[Charles Brian Quinn]

How about this:

http://getfirebug.com/logging.html

We use Firebug and this logging extensively when we develop Ruby on Rails apps.

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>>> Matt Rideout wrote:
>>>> What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to have the client
>>>> trigger something that logs to stderr on the server side?
>>> Unfortunately, yes.
>>
>> Well, that's easy then, but not likely to be useful. You could use
>> AJAX methodology to access an API that you could create that writes to
>> /dev/stderr. But, stderr,  like stdin or stdout is process specific.
>> Since your web server is likely to be running as a daemon, I don't
>> know that you would ever know that the write happened.
>>
>> Why not take a step back and instead of trying to get help
>> implementing your chosen solution, let us help you with your existing
>> problem. Can you tell us more about the problem you are trying to
>> solve? Since this is now a server side issue, can you tell us what
>> languages/frameworks you have at your disposal? (eg. PHP,
>> Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, ASP/GunInMouth, etc.)
>
> What I'm trying to do is log problems with javascript code somewhere so
> that I can see what the problem is.  Grant it, for testing purposes, I
> can see write to the error console, but that doesn't do me any good when
> a user runs into a problem.
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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