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pornel
It's technically interesting, but made bad impression on me by using broken User-Agent sniffing. It supports Opera 10.6, but serves Opera 11 version without JavaScript along with passive-aggressive message.

Same happens on iPhone when you use iCab (exactly same engine as supported Safari, just different UA string).

Such modern site spoiled by bad practice from '90s :(

samtp
I'm using the latest version of Chromium on Ubuntu and the book is too broken to read
duranai
same here - it was working yesterday though
Qz
What I really dislike about HTML5 'offline storage' is that there's never any indication of what exactly the website wants to store on my computer, so I always click no. UX Fail.
steveklabnik
What would you like it to show? There's no way to ensure that the code is doing whatever the message would actually be showing.
nathanwdavis
Seems to be broken (in Chrome beta). It always just goes to the Credits page when trying to view any section. Or maybe the creators just have really big egos.
simonsarris
That's odd, it seems OK in 9.0.587.0 dev