GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 63193
Reworked or optional dialog boxes
Last modified: 2005-08-07 16:27:33 UTC
I plan to use galeon on a internet kiosk that we currently are designing. It fits the bill perfectly, but there is one feature missing that would make life a lot easier for me, and for other embeded-style-designers. The ability to have dialog-feedback's apear in the browser, and not as dialog boxes. (For example, think IE's old 'Site not found' or 'Connection Refused', etc). What would happen is: 1) User types in a site name 2) Browser can not find site (no dns, connect refuse, etc) 3) Browser looks for HTML file for specified error (galeon/dialogs/404.html ?) 4) Browser displays html file This would allow people to 'brand' the error dialogs as well. The benifit for the normal user would be that it is 'less confusing'. (lots of windows confuse users), plus it would feel 'natural' to see a internet error in the same place as an internet page. For the embeded-style engineer, it has a bigger benifit, to be able to not run a WindowManager (!), since it doesnt have to manage dialog boxes ;-) Also it prevents the emebed system from 'showing its colors' (what OS, windowmanager, etc). Also the interface for errors is the same as all other navigation on the kiosks/etc.. thru web pages.
we cant do it, unless there is a prefs to make mozilla behave in this way. (Because we cant make a distinction between type of alerts, Site not found is just a type of alert). It would be good to check if mozilla has such an hidden pref, or if it has not, post a bug on mozilla.org. I'd like to have this as default if is possible.
I posted this 'feature request' on mozilla.org's bugzilla as well, see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107252
CVS now has support for error pages instead of dialogs for the mozilla network errors; it only works with Gecko 1.8 (as Gecko 1.7 doesn't have the necessary support). http://mail.gnome.org/archives/cvs-commits-list/2005-August/msg01649.html