[Bug 16442] This page nearly crashes my browser (firefox 10.0.2) as it attempts to load the whole long length of the page. This seems to be a major disadvantage, making it hard to read the spec when just loading it has the potential to crash or extremely slow the br

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16442

--- Comment #2 from tchalvakspam@gmail.com <tchalvakspam@gmail.com> 2012-03-20 07:42:06 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> The default multi-page view of the spec is at http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/

Let me reframe the problem, then:  I arrived at the spec via a google search
for 
"html5 spec article"

With a google results page of:
https://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&channel=fs&pws=0&q=html5+spec+article

Showing as the first result is this blurb:
HTML5
dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html
Editor's Draft 7 March 2012. Latest Published Version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/; Latest Editor's Draft:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html; Previous ...

Note that the link is to "spec/Overview.html", which immediately redirects to
the all-in-one-page spec.  The apparent-ness of a connection between an
overview and all the many sections of the spec on one page is tenuous at best. 
Regardless, the first result in google -was- the single page spec.

Loading the page itself displays no easy alternative link to a sectioned
document, at least above the fold.

The result is that the de facto standard for searching for information from the
spec leads directly to a page that will take a very long time to load, and may
even cause the browser itself to crash, without a clear alternative location to
attempt to use after the first visible section has loaded.  

Overall, a pretty bad user experience, and one I expect will decrease use of
the spec as a authoritative primary resource for new developers.



Other pages where the all-on-a-single-page-spec is the first link:
https://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&channel=fs&pws=0&q=html5+spec+section
https://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&channel=fs&pws=0&q=html5+spec+progress
https://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&channel=fs&pws=0&q=html5+spec+time

The list goes on.

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Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 07:42:11 UTC