Mercurial > ff-herdict-preso
changeset 2:fa39ca3f856e
Added script of narration.
author | Atul Varma <varmaa@toolness.com> |
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date | Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:19:05 -0800 |
parents | c590046d502c |
children | 40ebdb2b0985 |
files | css/ff-herdict-preso.css ff-herdict-preso.html |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/css/ff-herdict-preso.css Thu Feb 04 13:51:16 2010 -0800 +++ b/css/ff-herdict-preso.css Thu Feb 04 14:19:05 2010 -0800 @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ font-size: 24pt; } +#script { + display: none; +} + #slides { height: 400px; width: 660px;
--- a/ff-herdict-preso.html Thu Feb 04 13:51:16 2010 -0800 +++ b/ff-herdict-preso.html Thu Feb 04 14:19:05 2010 -0800 @@ -84,6 +84,61 @@ <p id="license"> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/3.0/us/80x15.png" /></a></p> </div> +<!-- This is the script for the pitch; eventually we should turn this text --> +<!-- into live subtitles. --> +<div id="script"> +Firefox's network error pages are familiar to everyone. + +But they're not very useful. Most people, if they're like me, see this +wall of text and interpret it to mean "the internet broke and we have +no idea why." + +The fundamental question users want answered when they see this is: is +there something *I* can do to fix this? + +Now, the architecture of the internet makes it fairly hard to pinpoint +why a network is down. + +As James Fallows explains in his article "The Connection Has Been +Reset" from the Atlantic's March 2008 issue, some national governments +even exploit this to prevent their people from seeing things that the +government doesn't want them to see. + +All this means that a "server not found" error page could have been +raised because the user's network connection got unplugged; or it +could be because their local router is down; or it could be because +their ISP is having problems; or it could be because their corporation +is blocking access to the site; or it could be because their +government has outlawed access to that particular site; or it could be +because the site is actually down. + +Firefox should do its best to answer that fundamental question: is +there something *I* can do to fix this and get where I want to go? + +Enter Herdict. + +Herdict is a project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at +Harvard University, a brainchild of Professor Jonathan Zittrain, that +attempts to use crowdsourcing to generate a global picture of internet +connectivity. + +Put simply, it uses the power of the internet itself to ask the +question: can other people on the internet see this site? If so, who? + +Firefox can use the answers to these questions to help answer the +user's fundamental question: is there something *I* can do to fix +this? + +This Labs Experiment is an attempt at picturing what +Firefox-Herdict-integration might look like. It's intended to be as +unintrusive as possible to the user experience, so it only aims to +improve upon the already notoriously unhelpful network error pages. + +Rather than being a final solution, this Labs Experiment is intended +to build mindshare and catalyze discussion about what a better network +error page might look like, following Mozilla's philosophy of creating +things that do stuff to make the internet better. +</div> </body> <script src="js/jquery.js"></script> <script src="js/ff-herdict-preso.js"></script>