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→Design Decisions: moar
**This follows previous conventions; on all major operating systems, error warnings provide a link to more information.
* The error code (404, DNS Not Found, etc) should be displayed, but not as the main text.
**The goal in the main text should be to explain as clearly and simply as possible to the user what is wrong. While both error codes and text would explain the problem to experienced users, error codes do not explain the problem to beginning users. Thus, both benefit from non-coded text.
**The main reason for including error codes is diagnosis. For instance, if an experienced user needs to know which particular error he is looking at, or if a beginning user is trying to get help from an experienced user, these codes would be important. So, including them in a visible but not prominent way can address this use case. This is similar to how Chrome and IE handle codes in network error warnings.
