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Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by organsnyder on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:54AM (#20183986)
That only works if the page is relatively static. Add in any functionality that requires a round-trip to a server, and things get immensely more complex.
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Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by TeMPOraL on Friday June 14, 2019 @12:16PM (#20184172)
No, they don't. There's a benefit in being able to snapshot the current state of a dynamic application.
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Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by organsnyder on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:18PM (#20184704)
But what happens when you want to meaningfully interact with it? It seems kind of useless to me if things are broken the instant I try to do anything.
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Re:Browser tabs are probably the wrong metaphor by TeMPOraL on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:50PM (#20185031)
You can press the Refresh button and suddenly things fix themselves. The utility is in having a snapshot of the site looking exactly as when you left it, with all the benefits of it not being rendered to a image, and with a high probability that at least some interactions still work.
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