Matthew wrote: >> Looking at my Freenet browser's history I see that the >> "Couldn't Retrieve > Key" is the most viewed page! (It >> should receive some kind of Emmy Award.) > And therefore it >> is the first page to be changed to improve the loading > >> time. It should be the simplest and tiniest page of all Web >> Interface > pages. > > That is not user friendly. This is the 21st century, it > doesn't matter what the content says, if it doesn't look > nice it puts off the users. Look at all the users scared > away from linux because the installers were text mode, for > example.
Matthew! It's just a fscking everyday, banal error page! Even the MSIE error page is quite simple. And even MS isn't including a Java-applet to play a round of Breakout till the page is found, but maybe we should do that with our error page? ;) I mean, just to make it more user friendly... I agree with you that the current Web-Interface style is important for new users. Everything is okay... but the error page. Look, here is the error page I designed: CHK at rezQpBUr-jVz0yZk9irdHlRxj8wLAwI,5saIJgsNIYQhIPa6rGYFow/dnf.html Major changes: - no clutter: 7 KiB => 1 KiB - Spaces => Tabs - no tables, images, gifs - no connections to FProxy - transitional => valid HTML 4.01 STRICT - address of DTD is specified - &try= => %26try= - using <label> Naturally, you can still apply some CSS properties if you like. A little bit of color, another font-family, ... jnk Concerned about your privacy? Follow this link to get FREE encrypted email: https://www.hushmail.com/?l=2 Free, ultra-private instant messaging with Hush Messenger https://www.hushmail.com/services.php?subloc=messenger&l=434 Big $$$ to be made with the HushMail Affiliate Program: https://www.hushmail.com/about.php?subloc=affiliate&l=427 _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
