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Behind the scenes of the Google #HTML5-based book

by roder on 11/19/10, 2:57 PM with 7 comments

• by pornel on 11/19/10, 3:14 PM

  It's technically interesting, but made bad impression on me by using broken User-Agent sniffing. It supports Opera 10.6, but serves Opera 11 version without JavaScript along with passive-aggressive message.

  Same happens on iPhone when you use iCab (exactly same engine as supported Safari, just different UA string).

  Such modern site spoiled by bad practice from '90s :(

• by Qz on 11/19/10, 4:48 PM

  What I really dislike about HTML5 'offline storage' is that there's never any indication of what exactly the website wants to store on my computer, so I always click no. UX Fail.

• by nathanwdavis on 11/19/10, 5:24 PM

  Seems to be broken (in Chrome beta). It always just goes to the Credits page when trying to view any section. Or maybe the creators just have really big egos.

• by samtp on 11/19/10, 4:33 PM

  I'm using the latest version of Chromium on Ubuntu and the book is too broken to read