JavaScript Errors

Display a notification about every script error.

[pageoneresults]

Is it just me, or am I seeing a few more errors in general while surfing about? How many of you use IE and have the Display a notification about every script error checked by default?

How many of you were browsing a site at one point and got a JavaScript error popup? Did you subconciously deselect the box about displaying script errors? If so, you may be in development mode browsing your web pages, testing your forms, and not see possible errors because you've either deselected that feature or it was not enabled to begin with.

In IE go to...

Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing > Display a notification about every script error.

Now, go test some of your web pages to make sure the JavaScript is not throwing errors.

P.S. The author of the above, me, does not have the extensive knowledge of JavaScript like others here. So, if I'm out of line with my above perception, please do let me know. :)

I do know that having that feature checked has helped me to determine JavaScript issues on sites that I develop.

Apparently others have missed it because I'm finding them sporadically while browsing.

[DrDoc]

The good thing about a browser like IE is that you have a little indicator in the status bar whenever there's an error. I just look at that one.

[Iguana]

I'm with pageone on this one. If you are browsing your own site nothing wakes you up like a script error dialog in your face. There are also a few script errors that occur just before a page is redirected or unloaded and you don't always catch them if you rely on the error flag in the status bar.

[RonPK]

Sometimes after a day of [strike]surfing[/strike]doing research I check the JavaScript console in Firefox or Opera. It usually is filled with an amazing amount of errors and notifications. Especially big sites like Google are quite messy in their scripting.

[Dijkgraaf]

If I'm developing or testing web pages using JavaScript and for IE, I make sure that I have enabled that so I do get the in your face pop-up.