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Behind the scenes of the Google #HTML5-based book

• pornel 16y ago
  It's technically interesting, but made bad impression on me by using broken User-Agent sniffing. It supports Opera 10.6, but serves Opera 11 version without JavaScript along with passive-aggressive message. Same happens on iPhone when you use iCab (exactly same engine as supported Safari, just different UA string). Such modern site spoiled by bad practice from '90s :(
• samtp 16y ago
  I'm using the latest version of Chromium on Ubuntu and the book is too broken to read
  • duranai 16y ago
    same here - it was working yesterday though
• Qz 16y ago
  What I really dislike about HTML5 'offline storage' is that there's never any indication of what exactly the website wants to store on my computer, so I always click no. UX Fail.
  • steveklabnik 16y ago
    What would you like it to show? There's no way to ensure that the code is doing whatever the message would actually be showing.
• nathanwdavis 16y ago
  Seems to be broken (in Chrome beta). It always just goes to the Credits page when trying to view any section. Or maybe the creators just have really big egos.
  • simonsarris 16y ago
    That's odd, it seems OK in 9.0.587.0 dev