Quick experiment: In a new Firefox profile, I opened a couple of websites [1]. Then I went offline and tried to load them again. Every time I just got the default "server not found" page of Firefox.
"Offline" is no more solved "not hijacking scrolling", "linkable URLs" and "not re-inventing <a href> badly".
Did you try right clicking and choosing "Save as..."?
As I said before, it's a 5-minute thing to get started with service-workers. Web-sites can use that and then you don't even need to save. There is this great offline library, fellow developers! Use it! What other platform gives you such easy-to-use offline capabilities?
> As I said before, it's a 5-minute thing to get started with service-workers. Web-sites can use that and then you don't even need to save.
I don't care if websites can use that if they don't.
> You are dealing with a Turing-complete language here.
That's the fucking problem.
> What is the alternative you are supporting instead the current situation?
Using a proper application platform instead of a pile of hacks on top of the web. Without that pile of hacks, the web would actually be usable because publishers would not be able to break the UX.
As I said before, it's a 5-minute thing to get started with service-workers. Web-sites can use that and then you don't even need to save. There is this great offline library, fellow developers! Use it! What other platform gives you such easy-to-use offline capabilities?
> "not hijacking scrolling", "linkable URLs" and "not re-inventing <a href> badly"
You are dealing with a Turing-complete language here. Navigation situation is still way better than the applets.
What is the alternative you are supporting instead the current situation?