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miscellanea: errori
Small collection of error messages - by Virgix
Unfortunately errors happen, especially in a dynamic website: something sooner or later goes wrong.
But how the site react to the error? Which it the best way to react to an error?
The vastity of this argument is really big: here you can see some practical example of web pages with errors.
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error: we got some configuration trouble....
And the message is totally unfiltered, and the language is english (we are coming from an italian page...) .
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error: gto some scripting bug...
But here we are informed of the error in a plain language, - italian language - hurrà - and no tecnical details.
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error:no newspaper article, but all that advertising..
The error message is buried among advertisement. The message is unfiltered and the language is english, the normal user surely cann't understand the message.
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error: we got problems, but we are calm and know what to do...
Almost perfect: Dell sents an alert-box to say that we had some communications problems (note, problems, not errors!) - and the message - in a perfect italian - explains what to do in a plain and clear manner... Very good, the only thing that is missing is a little bit of humour...
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error: but market leader is a market leader...
Il leader don't loose it calm, sayng that the erro is temporary and we have to retry... The message is a little bit "cold" - and in english, altough we came from an italian search page - but clear, as the search engine interface.
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error: filtered but really not clear!
The error is filtered, but the language is english -while the site is an italian website, with no english pages - and really ackward: the user receives no hints or suggestions...
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