pop-up any 500s in an iframe using jQuery. Especially useful for Django errors.

jquery.500frame.js

$(document).bind('ajaxError', function(e, jqXHR){
    if (jqXHR.status == 500){
        var erframe = document.createElement('iframe');
        $('body').append(erframe);
        $(erframe).css({
            'position': 'absolute',
            'top': '5%', 'left': '50%',
            'width': '90%', 'height': '90%',
            'marginLeft': '-45%',
            'z-index' : '9999999'
        }).attr('id', 'errorframe');
        var doc = erframe.document;
        if (erframe.contentDocument)// for moz
            doc = erframe.contentDocument;
        doc.open();
        doc.writeln(jqXHR.responseText);
        doc.close();
        var close = $('<a href="#" id="errorclose">X</a>');
        $('body').append(close);
        close.css({
            'position': 'absolute',
            'top': '0', 'right': '0',
            'padding': '5px'
        }).click(function(e){
            $('#errorframe').remove();
            close.remove();
        });
    }
});