errorpage work

I've started on some errorpage tidyups. The SF branch is "errorpages".
This stuff should eventually allow administrators to easily customise
the pages with their local theme.

So far I've:

* mostly extracted out the errorpage contents into metadata files,
  which at the moment cover "title", "short_description" and
  "long_description". This fits for -almost all- of the pages.
  The FTP PUT pages aren't all "errors".

* Wrote scripts/ErrorPage.pl which takes in a template+metadata
  file and spits out a HTML error page.

* Wrote BuildErrorPages to build an entire directory.

The only directory I've written templates for are the English error
pages.

The todo list:

* Create a "local style" option for each page which allows people
  to override various options per-page. Eg, someone may wish to make
  certain error pages red (access denied), others yellow (temporarily
  failures), etc. I've seen this done before..

* Go through each error page now and figure out a set of styles which
  encapsulates all the different bits of error pages, rather than
  embedded stuff (and then apply it to the pages.)

* This might require splitting "long description" up into a few more
  chunks ("system returned", "what the system meant", etc.)

* Look at the wordings of individual error pages and try to make them
  "friendlier" where appropriate?

* (Already kind of done) - lots of comment text to "bust" IE friendly
  error pages.

* Whatever else people can think of.

Adrian
Received on Sun Sep 02 2007 - 06:44:21 MDT