- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:25:21 -0700
On 7/8/10, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au> wrote: > On 2010-07-08 02:28, Garrett Smith wrote: >> This is about the fourth time I've said it here. Can the person in >> charge of writing the slow and buggy ajvascript on the HTML 5 spec >> please remove that? >> >> >> The problem is that that whatwg page causes freezes and crashes in >> Firefox. i > > As a workaround, you can use AdBlock in Firefox to block the offending > script. Just manually add this URL to your block list. > > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/status.js Does every user have permission to do that? On any computer? Running any browser? Crashing and freezing and throwing js errors is just no good at all. The user should not be punished for trying to RTM (and some might even consider RTM itself punishment). Adding a disclaimer at the top of the page that the page itself is a stress test might help stop people from linking to it. It wouldn't help the user who clicked the link, so it isn't a complete solution. Adding a link to AdBlock plugin at the top of the spec to tell the user to download it would help, too, but it would still not be fair to the user because it is too late. It could also be that the user does not have permission to install plugins or that the browser doesn't support the plugin, such as IE6. Why not have a separated link? The link could go in the spec itself or could go link to a page of test pages. Two clicks makes it so that the user won't easily click on it by accident. <H1>HTML 5<h1> ... <h3>HTML Tests</h3> <p> <a href="http://example.net/">Latest Test (Updated 2011-12-02)</a> </p>
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