Point of "Malformed URL" message boxes

[David Faure]

On Thursday 16 September 2004 23:10, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed today on http://www.myelectronics.nl/, selecting an URL and
> going back agian on KDE-3.3 debian/unstable, a message box with
> "Malformed URL". What is the point of this, why bother the user and not
> simply use kdDebug here? Strangely, this site 'just works', btw.

Well usually an error happens after the user tried to open something, so it's very
useful to tell the user why the opening failed (try typing "gg:" in konq's location bar).
On that site though, from what you say, it's about some URL that is opened
as a side effect (redirection? frame? although frame error usually show up inside
the frame...)

Can't reproduce, btw. What do you call "selecting a URL"? Clicking a link, or typing a new URL?
When clicking a link (something loads on the right) and then hitting back, no problems.

When going to www.kde.org and pressing back, I get
Error: http://www.myelectronics.nl/contents/grey.html?lmd=38252.686806: 
TypeError: Attempted to access 'get' property on undefined object (result of expression wm.get)

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