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Did you try right clicking and choosing "Save as..."?

As I said before, it's a 5-minute thing to get started with service-workers. Web-sites can use that and then you don't even need to save. There is this great offline library, fellow developers! Use it! What other platform gives you such easy-to-use offline capabilities?

> "not hijacking scrolling", "linkable URLs" and "not re-inventing <a href> badly"

You are dealing with a Turing-complete language here. Navigation situation is still way better than the applets.

What is the alternative you are supporting instead the current situation?

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> As I said before, it's a 5-minute thing to get started with service-workers. Web-sites can use that and then you don't even need to save.

I don't care if websites can use that if they don't.

> You are dealing with a Turing-complete language here.

That's the fucking problem.

> What is the alternative you are supporting instead the current situation?

Using a proper application platform instead of a pile of hacks on top of the web. Without that pile of hacks, the web would actually be usable because publishers would not be able to break the UX.

> I don't care if websites can use that if they don't.

It's new, and you can still save pages. Browsers will do their best to include all resources they depend as well.

> Using a proper application platform instead

Which one? Is there any cross-platform one with consistent design and UX? I don't think so.

> It's new, and you can still save pages

No, I can't. That does not work reliably.

> Browsers will do their best

In other words, they will fail.

> Which one? Is there any cross-platform one with consistent design and UX? I don't think so.

Frankly, even Electron applications are better than making web pages that behave incorrectly.

> No, I can't. That does not work reliably.

In all your given examples, it does.

> Frankly, even Electron applications are better than making web pages that behave incorrectly.

You know that 90% of Electron apps do not have any native function calls and are just wrappers on top of a web-app?

I just don't understand what you are criticizing anymore.

> You know that 90% of Electron apps do not have any native function calls

That does not make sense. If they made no native function calls, they could not even display a window.

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