Regarding this particular module: is there any chance of combining this with a websocket connection (particularly socket.io)? I don't really care much for off-site requests, but notifiying the user of a disconnected socket would play well into this.
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#12Making the app less prone to these issues is certainly going to help build something more robust, so thanks a lot!
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#14> It has a number of beautiful themes and requires no configuration
"Beautiful" is a word that's really getting overused nowadays, and I cringe whenever I see it.
Edit: I anticipated the downvoting
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#16> It captures AJAX requests which were made while the connection was down, and remakes them when it's back up, so your app reacts perfectly. Is this something I want as a user? If an app seems to be offline, I tend to do various things just to check or re-establish connectivity. Say, hit the Send button a few times, order columns, filter, search, whatever. Stuff, I wouldn't do if I had connection. Once the app reconn…
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#17I think this is a neat proof of concept. However, you have to be extremely careful to not get out of sync hell. I see an enormous load of extra complexities for what seems to be very little advantage. On the other hand, if you list all the queued non-GET AJAX call for the user to resend manually, it could be good. I'm ambivalent :(
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#18I think this is a neat proof of concept. However, you have to be extremely careful to not get out of sync hell. I see an enormous load of extra complexities for what seems to be very little advantage. On the other hand, if you list all the queued non-GET AJAX call for the user to resend manually, it could be good. I'm ambivalent :(
Why are you critiquing this script like it's a consumer product? Obviously any developer who wishes to use this will have do some extra work to make sure things run smoothly.
And I didn't say the library was bad, quite the contrary.