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		witty_username on Aug 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This JPEG is also a webpage > Compare that to JavaScript, which will happily fail if you use new syntax or a missing function, and thus web pages which rely on JS often show up as just a full screen of white when something goes wrong, which it frequently does. Isn't that more due to failure to handle exceptions and display errors to users?

cbsmith on Aug 10, 2016 | [–]

> Isn't that more due to failure to handle exceptions and display errors to users?

You could describe it that way.... or you could describe it as failing to have reasonable default logic for handling faults & gracefully degrade.

TazeTSchnitzel on Aug 10, 2016 | [–]

Silent failure or not, the page still doesn't work.

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