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Good: it detects when you’re offline and displays a fun error page. Bad: this only works on every other click. Half the time the links just silently fail....
by mikeash 7y ago
Good: it detects when you’re offline and displays a fun error page.
Bad: this only works on every other click. Half the time the links just silently fail....
- StavrosK 7y agoFor me, it always displays the "you're offline" page.
- mikeash 7y agoA good demonstration of one of the major hazards of reinventing basic functionality like this: it’s really easy to end up with something that behaves differently on different browsers or just for different people.
- couchand 7y agoYou just reminded me that slate.com frequently tells me I'm offline after clicking the back button.