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Something's weird about the links. I can't middle-click them to open in a new window.

Edit: In fact, there's a lot about this site that seems to use JS to replace basic functionality of the Web, incompletely, without providing the same UX.

I expected I'd be able to search through titles on the current page using ctrl+F, for example, but that doesn't work because of the "infinite scroll" thing it's trying to do. Why do that? Infinite scroll on top of pagination seems completely redundant, and the list of all RFC titles is a finite and relatively small chunk of data anyway.

I agree, my initial thoughts were "oh nice", then after two minutes trying to use it I thought it was an example of how to cram in as many UI anti-patterns as possible.

Yeah, this site is a good showcase of how one shouldn't override 'native' functionality unless absolutely necessary.

Fortunately, the authoritative RFC index works just fine for both of those: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/

Can you give an example? It all seems to work fantastically for me in Firefox 34.0.5 on Windows 7. I'm not usually a fan of single page applications, but after digging through this for a while, it seems very nice.

> Can you give an example?

Get to any list of RFCs.

Right click, middle click, ctrl+click, or do anything other than left click on the "link" to the RFC you want to read. They are not real links. They can not be opened in new windows.

Oh, yep, you're right. I could have sworn I tried that, but apparently I did not.

It would be good to get somehow the latest RFC easily. When I search for SMTP I had to jump through several obsolete RFCs to find the latest one.

It's a good idea with several issues so far.

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Sample: RFC 7381 - Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines

Searching 'ipv6', 'ipv6 enterprise' and 'enterprise ipv6' don't show the result. Searching the number does.

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I can't use page down/page up to navigate the results.

This looks awesome. I've always wanted something like this.

Very Cool! Serious question, I don't meant to sound rude, but what are the advantages of signing up?

Tags, Commenting, Bookmarking and Sharing menu items all require being signed in.

It doesn't seem to be up to date. For example, RFC 7230 (current version of HTTP/1.1) is missing from the index.

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<shameless plug> I made it look nicer on OSX a few years ago: https://github.com/saghul/qrfcview-osx

Which reminds me I should bring it up to date... </plug>

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