On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 22:15 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
To get back to your example, not every
company may have the will, foresight or resources to install a second
LAN just for external people.
Sure. I don't think we can handle every possible case with zero
configuration. But the point is to try very hard to handle as much of
it as possible.
Actually I think that displaying browser errors in a web page
isn't such
a good idea, even if IE does it ;-).
I'm not saying that because IE does it it's a good idea, but rather it
is a good idea that IE happens to do. The error page is a lot less
intrusive than a dialog (even if we fixed the bug where a "host not
found" dialog blocks the entire browser mainloop, it's still nicer to
have an error in the place of origin), and is able to provide a lot more
information.
Any error detected in the browser
should be distinguishable as such,
Why is that?
buttons to reach proxy configuration
are put there as easily as links on a web page.
Sure, but see above.