- From: Gordon P. Hemsley <gphemsley@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:12:56 -0500
- To: David Barrett-Kahn <dbk@google.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Recent blog posts that coincidentally may be useful in this discussion: http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=1532 http://www.twobraids.com/2012/11/socorro-as-service.html On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:07 AM, David Barrett-Kahn <dbk@google.com> wrote: > Hi whatwg. I have a proposal for a new web standard, and would value your > feedback. This is based on my experiences working on Google Docs, which > has a well developed ability to send crash reports back to the server for > analysis. We often find these crash reports to be lacking in crucial > information though, because that information is not available on the JS > APIs. > > My proposal is to have a class of information which can be made available > to an app only after the display of a generic 'this application has > crashed' dialog, which could be drilled into to show what is being > disclosed, and which of course can be denied. > > Good examples of the information in question are the system's precise > hardware and network configuration, what Chrome extensions it has > installed, and perhaps a screenshot of the failed application. > > I've fleshed this out in the following document, and would value opinions > on the value of a feature of this kind, and the merits of this particular > approach. > > > https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1pw2Bzvy6OEn8YY3fAcZiReJPmgB79swkx-NJAdcemPk > > Thanks! > > -Dave > -- Gordon P. Hemsley me@gphemsley.org http://gphemsley.org/ • http://gphemsley.org/blog/
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