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@broquemonsieur broquemonsieur commented Aug 11, 2024

A classic sign of a hip website is their 404 page. Making them fun or clever has been trending upward since 2010.

This @SamantazFox-approved graphic resembles a Video Input error for Cable TVs to represent a video_id that is not found
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unfound_tv_box_dark_theme = File.read("assets/404_tv_box_dark_theme.svg")
unfound_tv_box_light_theme = File.read("assets/404_tv_box_light_theme.svg")
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Please, don't do that! Instead, put the file URL in the src attribute in the HTML, and let the browser and web server properly handle caching.

If you load the image from disk each time you have to show this error, you'll waste all file descriptors the server can have.

<%= error_message %>
<% if dark_mode == "dark" %>
<div style="width: 100px; height: auto;">
<img src="/404_tv_box_dark_theme.svg" alt="SVG Image" style="width: 100px; height: auto;">
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An empty alt should be used instead unless there's information in the image that should be conveyed to users that use a screenreader.

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<img src="/404_tv_box_dark_theme.svg" alt="SVG Image" style="width: 100px; height: auto;">
<img src="/404_tv_box_dark_theme.svg" alt="" style="width: 100px; height: auto;">

</div>
<% else %>
<div style="width: 100px; height: auto;">
<img src="/404_tv_box_light_theme.svg" alt="SVG Image" style="width: 100px; height: auto;">
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Same thing here:

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<img src="/404_tv_box_light_theme.svg" alt="SVG Image" style="width: 100px; height: auto;">
<img src="/404_tv_box_light_theme.svg" alt="" style="width: 100px; height: auto;">

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