Open Bug 688658 Opened 13 years ago Updated 7 months ago

In-content error UI (about:neterror, about:certerror, others?) should look different in iframes.

Categories

(Toolkit :: General, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
General
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: Dolske, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Followup from bug 633691...

When a page has frames, having network/cert errors show up in the frame is of limited utility (unless the user is the web developer). We should just show some simplified UI that indicates there was a problem, and perhaps some minimal detail of the problem. And in a form that doesn't look bizarre when the iframe chops off / scrolls part of the error.

EG when a image fails to load we just show a broken-image icon, so an iframe with a problem could just do something similar... Giving the user instruction on fixing the problem (irrelevantly, in the URL bar) isn't useful for a web page!

The plugin-problem UI is probably a rough guideline of what to do, although we might want a very different visual appearance? Or the same?
Severity: normal → S3
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