#2520 NORM Trial-3: "Address not found" page is lacking in style and substance

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#2520: "Address not found" page is lacking in style and substance
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  Reporter:  Eben              |       Owner:  marco  
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Trial-3
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:         
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Changes (by Eben):

 * cc: okada (added)
  * owner:  Eben => marco

Comment:

 I've attached proposals for two independent error messages.  This first is
 to be used when no internet connection is detected at all; the second is
 to be used when a connection is detected but the specified page could not
 be found.  Both are lightweight, but give a short tip that points kids in
 the direction of the most common causes for the errors.

 In the future, we'll likely want to add something like a "more info"
 button which could explain possible causes of these errors in greater
 detail, and provides more information about how to correct the issues.
 This could even get into details of DNS, domain registration, proxies,
 firewalls etc. such as the old default page did, but should always provide
 links (perhaps to wikipedia?) for each of these potentially unknown terms
 so that the kids can use the error as a way to learn about the underlying
 structure.

 The text used for these error messages should be localized in the .py file
 for Browse.  Note that in both cases, the URL field retains the actual
 typed URL and not the title of the page (since, in general, the title
 can't be known in either case anyway...)  I'd argue in favor of placing
 focus within the URL field when either of these errors occurs so that
 modifications can be made.

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