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Re:Web.dev by Google by NelsonMinar on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:12PM (#18436434)
Talk about breaking the back button! Do a measurement on a website. Then click one of the Guide links like "Links do not have a discernible name". Page navigates away from the report to some documentation. Click back, report is gone.

I get it, it's a single page webapp. But if you do that you need to make all the simple navigations open new tabs. There is a "open link in new button" icon next to each link, but that's really not good enough.

Re:Web.dev by Google by robdodson on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:28PM (#18436558)
Ah yeah that's something we want to fix. If you're signed in it keeps the report around but if you're signed-out it's stateless. It's definitely on our to-do list to fix.
Re:Web.dev by Google by koboll on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:44PM (#18438379)
Maybe just throw on a target='_blank', no need to do anything fancy
Re:Web.dev by Google by sniuff on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:37AM (#18440232)
it's stateless
Re:Web.dev by Google by softawre on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:16AM (#18441550)
It's made worse by the fact that you can't easily read the recommendation without clicking on it.
Re:Web.dev by Google by dmitriid on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:18AM (#18439030)
> on our to-do list to fix

This is sort of representative of web.dev vs the rest of Google.

Read the rest of the comments, seriously. I would be very discouraged to release this web site when the rest of the company is vehemently opposed to any of the practices listed there.

Re:Web.dev by Google by NelsonMinar on Monday November 12, 2018 @06:34PM (#18436984)
Fair enough! Thanks for the reply.
Re:Web.dev by Google by exprA on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:57AM (#18440088)
Also broken everywhere else in the site for me: you never get back to where you were* , even on a “static” page full of links.

A horrible excuse of a web site – but perhaps that still makes for a good web app. I couldn't tell and don't know if I'd want to.

* edit for clarification: this includes position on previous page

Re:Web.dev by Google by exodust on Monday November 12, 2018 @07:12PM (#18437186)
Good to see someone else mention this, and also for the Google web.dev.dev to reply.