Point of "Malformed URL" message boxes

[Koos Vriezen]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:35:23AM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> 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.

Current site and/or KHTML seems not to popup message boxes anymore. Me
thinks they fixed the site.... yes 'works' on debian/unstable too.
Yes, I meant clicking a link and then konqueror's back button (sorry for
the bad description). Still point stand IMHO, what does it tell an user
if javascript tries to open invalid URLs (not to mention the annoyance
of having to click on 'Ok' buttons, a less intrusive sliding message,
like konsole uses often when typing 'exit', would be better). A
"Malformed URL" message is not user friendly (and for a lot not
informative at all *) esp. when it comes from javascript.

*) Invalid location given (gg: has no hostname)

> 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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