after 1 minute on my modem
after 1 minute on my modem
ikiwiki
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:14:35 +0000
recpatcha
posts/recpatcha/
posts/recpatcha/
Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:14:35 +0000
2017-02-14T05:14:35Z
<p><img src="img/recaptcha.png" alt="recaptcha.png" /></p>
<p>I've seen this too often recently; recaptcha seems to always
time out loading on dialup now, so I can't register on web sites.</p>
<p>The rest of the page loaded fine and worked fine. And asked me to "prove
you're not a robot" every time I reloaded it and re-filled the registration
information form. Defenstration territory.</p>
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hello HN
posts/hello_HN/
posts/hello_HN/
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:14:16 +0000
2017-01-14T12:14:16Z
<p>Since I <a href=" have HN's attention</a> with this side blog of mine, can I suggest one simple tweak:</p>
<p>Please, please, if your site requires AJAX to work at all, then retry failed AJAX queries. Use exponential backoff or whatever but don't let the AJAX query fail once and the page be unusable.</p>
<p>This happens <em>all the freaking time</em> when I'm on dialup, and there's nothing more annoying than having filled out a form or series of forms only to have the submit button break because it used AJAX to do a sanity check and threw an exception because the server timed out after some absurdly short (dialup-wise) period of time.</p>
<p>-- <a href=" Hess</a></p>
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formulae
posts/formulae/
posts/formulae/
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 04:37:59 +0000
2016-06-14T04:37:59Z
<p><a href="img/formulae.png"><img src="img/formulae.png" width="1366" height="742" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>Until javascript loads, you can read the forumulae behind their business
logic.</p>
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unicode character spinning
posts/unicode_character_spinning/
posts/unicode_character_spinning/
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:42:25 +0000
2015-03-28T14:42:25Z
<p><a href="img/spinner.png"><img src="img/spinner.png" width="1366" height="742" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>I've been noticing more of this kind of broken unicode box spinning gently
on the screen lately. This one was still spinning after around 15 minutes.</p>
<p>The combination of the "Amish time" title and the spinning broken unicode
box seems to want to say something profound about .. something.</p>
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scroll
posts/scroll/
posts/scroll/
Sat, 07 Feb 2015 13:53:32 +0000
2015-02-07T13:53:32Z
<p><a href="img/scroll.png"><img src="img/scroll.png" width="1366" height="742" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>Site that displays only 3 lines of an article in a tiny scrolling
sub-window, presumably until the CSS for the huge amount of navigation
cruft above it has finished loading.</p>
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wtF?
posts/wtF/
posts/wtF/
Sat, 07 Feb 2015 13:53:32 +0000
2015-02-07T13:53:32Z
<p><a href="img/wtF.png"><img src="img/wtF.png" width="1366" height="768" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>Followed by equally gigantic twitter, youtube, google+ icons..</p>
<p><a href="img/twitF.png"><img src="img/twitF.png" width="1366" height="768" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>The icons of the web giants we worship, rendered actual size?</p>
<p>(Ok, probably really some CSS stylesheet load fail.)</p>
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rss
posts/rss/
posts/rss/
Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:46:26 +0000
2013-08-27T04:46:26Z
<p><a href="img/rss.png"><img src="img/rss.png" width="1024" height="600" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>The big rss image is mocking me. If only they really used rss, I'd not need
to wait for their pointless images, web fonts, etc, to see the 100 word
puff peice that ignores the existence of pump.io.</p>
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cart
posts/cart/
posts/cart/
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:06:34 +0000
2013-07-31T00:06:34Z
<p><a href="img/cart.png"><img src="img/cart.png" width="1024" height="578" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>Presumably at some point in the next 10 minutes or so, a scrap of text will
finally appear on this page. I'll read it in about 1 minute, and move on.</p>
<p>But until then, I get to spend many minutes staring at over-designed social
network share buttons and gratuitous images!</p>
<p>Special bonus points: The text turns out to be loaded by javascript, so
view source doesn't even let me bypass the crud.</p>
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whitebox
posts/whitebox/
posts/whitebox/
Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:02:30 +0000
2013-07-22T15:02:30Z
<p><a href="img/whitebox.png"><img src="img/whitebox.png" width="1024" height="600" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>Entire page is completely loaded and functional ... except for the only
thing on it I want to read.</p>
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bugsplat
posts/bugsplat/
posts/bugsplat/
Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:02:07 +0000
2013-07-21T05:02:07Z
<p><a href="img/bugsplat.png"><img src="img/bugsplat.png" width="1024" height="600" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>More web fonts. It was really better 2 seconds before this screenshot,
when the fixed width font had not yet loaded either, and I was looking
at an abstract design of boxes, reminiscent of a 80's video game.</p>
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google plus
posts/google_plus/
posts/google_plus/
Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:18:32 +0000
2013-07-19T22:18:32Z
<p>Attack of the web fonts. It's not worth being able to see text unless it's
displayed <em>just</em> right.</p>
<p><a href="img/gplus.png"><img src="img/gplus.png" width="1024" height="578" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>This is actually a good day for Google Plus; more than 50% of the time
trying to load a page results in some kind of SSL timeout problem.</p>
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telegraph
posts/telegraph/
posts/telegraph/
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:16:02 +0000
2013-07-17T01:16:02Z
<p><a href="img/telegraph.png"><img src="img/telegraph.png" width="1024" height="578" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>I see a lot of this effect where while the page is half way loaded,
the wrong styling is in effect. In this case, at least the text is not
black on black while this happens.</p>
<p>AFAIK, no sane use of CSS can lead to this effect. You have to go out of
your way to arrange for part of the CSS to load late.</p>
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first post
posts/first_post/
posts/first_post/
Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:41:46 +0000
2013-07-17T01:16:02Z
<p>The benchmark for a reasonable site.Other than the image still loading, everything is visible and works.</p>
<p><a href="posts/first_post/thisblog.png"><img src="posts/first_post/thisblog.png" width="1024" height="578" class="img" /></a></p>
<p>BTW, the image took about 1 minute to upload.</p>
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