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2 Jul 2003

A blank error message Speaking of helpful error messages, this one is certainly useful. I made a comment on the previous post about how I once saw a blank error. Of course, a few hours after I wrote that, Dreamweaver MX served up this lovely gem and then crashed.

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Adam Kalsey
July 2, 2003 11:43 AM

I wonder how may people are going to try and click that image of a button, thinking it's a message on their system.

nick
July 2, 2003 11:50 AM

i make one. and two.

Phillip Harrington
July 3, 2003 11:00 AM

"There's nothing so great about your interface that it could not be improved if there were less of it" (paraphrasing Alan Cooper)

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