[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

Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Michael[tm] Smith <mike@w3.org> 2012-03-20 08:15:15 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> 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
>
> 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.  
> 
> 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.

OK, point taken. If we were to have the a dialog box pop up after a certain
number of seconds, with a link to the multi-page version, would that be helpful
or not? (What I mean is, something like what the WHATWG version of the spec at
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ does)

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Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 08:15:18 UTC