IMHO anyone that is making a website which is availible to the internet (ie not a home lan or something) will probably go to the trouble of changing their error page to be more like the rest of their site. Otherwise the site will probably only be accessed at 10/100 mbit. So even 500kb wouldn't be over the top. I have little experience in what the majority of users use their fedora servers for, but mine is for serving up howtos, games-patches, etc. at LAN's. So for me or anyone i know, a good graphical error page would be nice.
Just my 2 cents, Darren
Nando wrote:
I agree also, that was only a an example of what i meant by a graphical page. Something with a logo representing Fedora. Of course it misses there a small explanation of what caused the error, and so on. But if it was to use already done things, it was better to continue with the default apache error pages.
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defaultI agree that communication and usability of such pages, wizards, etc. must be much clearer and tested in public. Remember, we are here to build the best system for our grandmas.
greets, marky
Jonathan Marc Bearak wrote:
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:30, Nando wrote:
Ok, so here it is a sample of i was talking about. I's quite simple.
http://icewind.no.sapo.pt/error404.png
My intencion, was to have a rpm that installed this, changing the
ones, that apache brings.
Making this optional.
IMHO, that example is worse than the default error page. Most people do not know what "Error 404" means.
Hypothetically, a simple improvement to the default 404 message could be s/URL/(document|file), followed by an explanatory statement like, "You may have typed the wrong web address."
Also, looking at /var/www/error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var, there are a number of translations that should be taken into account, further complicating things.
Just as fedora artwork is designed with consistency in mind, it is up to an individual website to design error pages consistent with the rest of their website. The default error pages are clean and functional.
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