Browsers are pretty good at loading pages

Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by detaro on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:55PM (#20494193)

And it took me 2 minutes clicking around to break its idea of the page state. I am partially scrolled down the home page, and it just decided to deactivate scrollbars and the ability to scroll.

A great example of how it's quite difficult to reimplement stuff that works perfectly well on traditional pages.

(At least they seem to haven gotten rid of some of the dark patterns they had in the past, that's nice to see)

EDIT: and within a minute more found another state bug :D

Yes, you can make perfect SPAs, but many people fail and it's a good question if the effort required to do it properly is worth it.

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by greenhatman on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:43PM (#20494412)

I've never found a bug on there, and I've been on it many times.

I'd love if you can show me how to reproduce this bug.

I just don't have this experience with SPAs breaking. I actually have no idea where it's coming from.

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by wvenable on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:50AM (#20495405)

I just reproduced it following the commenters instructions -- clicked the sidebar link, got a popup, pressed the back button and I have no scroll bar.

I can see what is happening there: the popup removes scrolling (because of the overlay) but the back button doesn't restore it.

This certainly does lend to the conclusion that managing page state in a SPA is not trivial.

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by detaro on Sunday July 21, 2019 @08:30PM (#20494602)

It doesn't happen 100 % of the time, but right now going to the homepage, clicking one of the listings in the "newest listings" box, and then returning to the homepage through the browser back button triggered it.

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by nkurz on Sunday July 21, 2019 @10:05PM (#20494908)

I am able to reproduce this bug with Safari on a Macbook. I clicked on an item in "newest", then quickly pressed Cmd-Left to return to the previous "page". The front page reappears, but I'm unable to scroll with arrow keys or trackpad. An additional press of Esc returns the expected functionality.

It seems to be a fast and responsive site when it works, though.

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Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages by nathan_long on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:35AM (#20496736)

> It seems to be a fast and responsive site when it works, though.

LOL.

Y'all, I love speed as much as anyone, but your development priorities should be 1) it works and 2) it's fast.

Using HTML links where 1) is never in doubt and all focus can be placed on 2) seems like good engineering to me.

Reinventing browser navigation is like building a rocket. You should be really, really sure that you need to do it before you try.

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