Re: 404 page (was Re: URL aliases for WPD without /wiki)

Hi everyone,

Here’s a prototype of the 404 page [1]. Like I said previously, I think the error should be added in some hidden page in the wiki (the errors/ directory is temporary), for easier maintenance (and to get a proper search box too, with all the autocomplete stuff). Since nobody replied to my question about which errors do we need, I made all 10 digits in the WPD logo style, which you can play with here [2] to see how the various error combinations look. The SVGs would be soo much simpler if WebKit didn’t have the infamous bug with referencing external SVG files :(
There are 2 alternate versions of the 4, so that the 404 error doesn’t look too monotonous. I should do the same for any other error codes that use the same digit twice.
If you like them, perhaps we could also use the numbers elsewhere too, e.g. the wiki pages describing the error codes? They’re pretty flexible.

Since I was at it, I also made a cleaner SVG for the logo, you can compare the two here [3] [4]. My changes shaved off about 80% of its file size, and made it easier to animate it, if we ever wish to and it was pretty easy to make after working on the digits.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Lea

[1]: http://www.webplatform.org/errors/404.html
[2]: http://www.webplatform.org/errors/images/numbers.html
[3]: http://www.webplatform.org/errors/images/logo.svg
[4]: http://www.webplatform.org/errors/images/logo-2.svg

Lea Verou
W3C developer relations
http://w3.org/people/all#lea ✿ http://lea.verou.me ✿ @leaverou






On Mar 27, 2013, at 08:13, Julee wrote:

> Nice, Sébastien. J
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> From: Sébastien Desbenoit <seb@desbenoit.net>
> Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:51 PM
> To: Doug May <intuedge@gmail.com>
> Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, julee <julee@adobe.com>, Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>, Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>, Ryan Lane <rlane32@gmail.com>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: 404 page (was Re: URL aliases for WPD without /wiki)
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> Super Lea! 
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> The page looks great, but I have trouble to read the four. If we add some length to the segment, would this work? 
> I tried to visualize my idea:  http://i.imgur.com/RN6rors.png 
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> Have a nice day, 
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> Seb 
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> Le 27 mars 2013 à 04:34, Doug May <intuedge@gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> +1 to shepazu and those before.  great thread, and kickass upgrades.
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>> Without hijacking the thread, I want to add that if I knew how to flow
>> this toward our promotable highlights, I would do so.
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>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
>>> Hi, Lea-
>>> 
>>> I like the first one, too.
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>>> A couple of suggestions:
>>> * remove the emoticon, it makes the message muddled
>>> * add a link to the search term that is in the URL (or maybe add a search
>>> box)
>>> 
>>> Regards-
>>> -Doug
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>>> On 3/26/13 5:17 PM, Julee wrote:
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>>>> Ha! Great! I like the first one. J
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Lea Verou <lea@w3.org>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 5:15 PM
>>>> To: julee <julee@adobe.com>
>>>> Cc: Denis Ah-Kang <denis@w3.org>, Ryan Lane <rlane32@gmail.com>, Doug
>>>> Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, "public-webplatform@w3.org"
>>>> <public-webplatform@w3.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: 404 page (was Re: URL aliases for WPD without /wiki)
>>>> 
>>>>> How does something like this look?
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>>>>> http://i1.minus.com/iGfRmjKm0ge9P.png
>>>>> http://i3.minus.com/ibu6imWYDGMUXO.png
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Lea
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