Change / Customize the "You are not connected to the Internet" screen?

[ziggyonice]

Well the title says it really. I'd like to change the page Safari displays when not connected to the Internet. Working for a business that sells Macs, I'd prefer something that looks a little nicer when the network is down.

I know that it's a Localizable.strings file...
(located here: Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings )

But if I change the wording in the file, when trying to load up the error page, I'm presented with "localized string not found".

Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[ziggyonice]

Okay, I did some more digging, and the only other possibility is the localizedStrings.js file, which is in that same folder. But still... haven't been able to update that page...

 

[rake_mistry]

Sorry I'm of no help, but that's a great idea. I mean, other than business uses, I'd love to have the type of pages you get from Google Chrome. They just seem to brighten up a usually bad situation. Hope someone can find out how to do this

 

[ziggyonice]

Doing a little more research, a guy on another forum informs me:

There is most likely some javascript in the program that modifies the templates, and requires the strings to be a given length and all that. Still, the templates are the following files:

Localizable.strings
localizedStrings.js
page-load-errors.css
StandardErrorPage.html

So I'm in the process of seeing what exactly that means...

 

[ziggyonice]

While I don't know how to dramatically change the page, here's a method of changing some of the text.

You can get something like this:

Go to Safari, right click and Show Package Contents. Go to Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings.

Change the ending of the line:

/* title of error page displayed for NotConnectedToInternet */
"You are not connected to the Internet." = "You are not connected to the Internet because you haven't paid your bill.";