107252 - Reworked or optional html dialog's

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28586

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, enhancement)

Description

[Chris]

I plan to use embeded mozilla / 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.

See URL (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63193) for the Galeon 
bugzilla entry (who's take is 'we can only do this if mozilla has the hooks 
for it ;-))

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->Embedding

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I think everyone would love this.  Duplicate of "[RFE] Should use error page,
not dialog, for inaccessible pages (placeholder)"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28586 ***

Comment 3

[timeless]

iirc someone attached a start for this [well they gave me a tarball for it..]
vrfy dupe