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1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 05:04:55 EST clacke
   Wow, this is terrible usability.
   
   In FF57, you're on an XHTML page, it's loading progressively, nice, then you click a link before it finished loading.
   
   *boom*
   
   Parser thinks "oh that's the whole XML then, and I guess it's all broken because you didn't close the body tag" and just renders that error message.
   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 05:06:07 EST clacke

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      ... while waiting for the linked page to load, of course. But the expected behavior would be for the partially-loaded page to remain partially loaded instead of being replaced by an error message and the flip is quite jarring.
   2. レイン∵λ (benis@social.i2p.rocks)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 05:17:05 EST レイン∵λ

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      @clacke Wow, this is terrible usability.
      
      In Netscape Communicator, you're on an MIME article, it's loading progressively, nice, then you click an attachment before it finished loading.
      
      *boom*
      
      Parser thinks "oh that's the whole Message then, and I guess it's all broken because you didn't close the UUCP stream" and just renders that error message.
      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 05:27:06 EST clacke

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         @benis All this has happened before, and will happen again.
      2. Efraim Flashner (efraim@tooot.im)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 10:02:44 EST Efraim Flashner

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         @benis @clacke this reminds me of joeyh's cornbread bug in iceweasel https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773619

         1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 20:56:29 EST clacke

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            @efraim @benis That is exactly the same thing in a different context!