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		stavros on July 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Browsers are pretty good at loading pages For me, it always displays the "you're offline" page.

mikeash on July 22, 2019 | [–]

A 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 on July 22, 2019 | [–]

You just reminded me that slate.com frequently tells me I'm offline after clicking the back button.

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