MentalPolyphonics
Smash monogamy.
Instead of redirecting our feeds to Atom I added some images and code to randomize and beautify (?) our 404 error page.
It’s all automagic, so if you…
A. Take an image of something 404-ish,
B. Have upload access, and
C. Drop it into /images/404
… then it’ll be added to the rotation with no other setup. The shots currently spinning are some 404s I’ve spotted around town in the last 24 hours. Keep refreshing a broken link to see both.
I thought this set a good overview. Also: there is very little...
Jared
I never understood why 404 pages exist. A proper webbrowser would not waste bandwidth and loading time by getting the message body of a “client error”. Instead, as soon as it gets a failure status it should disregard the rest of the message and display a generic, built-in error page. Probably including the reason phrase that goes along with the status (our reason phrase is “Not Found” – pretty deep!).
These goofy pictures are a slippery slope to the sites that send you down a rabbit hole when you hit a 404 or connect with a weird user agent.
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on February 19, 2010 at 8:11 pm
[...] be great. Refresh a couple of times — it’s dynamic, using the same code as our rotating 404s to pick a background (one of which you might recognize) under the lightly-alpha’d content [...]