On 30/09/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah... would it be possible to have a client-side script to determine the proper error message based on the requested subdomain?
Mark
That was one option I'd considered (and would have implemented, had I not run out of mid-semester break). It shouldn't be too difficult, anyway. If someone wants to spend some time writing some Javascript for this, inserting %U will insert the whole URL, from which you can likely get the subdomain. Otherwise, I'll get around to it in the next couple of weeks and submit it with the few changes that have been requested by people.
I tested this error message on IE6, Firefox 1.0.6, Netscape 8, Opera 8.02, Lynx, Konqueror, e-Links and NCSA Mosaic (just to see if it worked in ultra-old browsers). The Javascript works in its entirety in Konqueror, IE and Firefox/Netscape. Opera does most of it fine except it doesn't colour the links according to which language is currently selected, because Opera doesn't currently support document.styleSheet which is what I used. I suppose the page could be rejigged to remedy this but it seems like too much effort for what is essentially a cosmetic thing. Surprisingly, the page displays perfectly in Internet Explorer (the strikethrough is faded in IE), which may offend some free software purists out there (hey, I'm sending this email to the technical list).
~Mark Ryan