On May 26, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Josh Aas wrote:
I'm buying. I like the arguments, and in particular, point #1 as I hate dealing with sheet alerts due to their being very slow and disruptive. -Josh
Its a matter of personal habits. The xul error pages have been around for a good while now, and I've had them on and off via the pref for most of that time (either in Camino, Firefox or Mozilla) and myself I just like the sheets better.
(as I think I already mentioned) I don't like the delayed notification because I'd rather be able to immediately recover from an error (perhaps hit the google cache link for example) instead of not see the error until perhaps after I've closed the source tab. This is my biggest problem with them, and its not really a bug per say, its just the way I work. Yes, some fixes like a favicon might help make people like me aware of the error sooner, but I don't know if that would be enough. Perhaps coloring the tab to red would do it, but I'm not going to campaign for that without seriously giving it some thought first and seeing if its possible.
There are other cases where there are problems with redirects or other bad states that the error pages might wind up in, most cases where there is an error shown and you are not at a valid destination URL as a result and so you've got a pretty error message but you're at a dead end anyway and the recovery options in the page will always fail you, or history has been clobbered and is of no help, but I'm not greatly concerned as most/all of the major cases are bugged and look to be in the queue to be fixed before Firefox (and I presume Camino) goes out with these pages on as default.
If pink (or others) think the error pages are stable enough now (or will be) that it becomes OK to turn them on by default that's just fine with me. I'm sure some people will prefer them. I'm just concerned that I will have to live with them if the pref gets clobbered.
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