Adding "hanging connection" to throttling profiles |
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Issue descriptionOffline is useful to test, but often disguises problems with offline-first content. It's fairly common in my experience (and others I've spoken to) to end up with a mobile connection that thinks it's online, but it can't seem to achieve any kind of connection. Think of it like a profile with infinite latency, or a download rate of 0.00000001. If you've built something that has an offline fallback, the user is still left looking at a white screen until the connection times out, which can take minutes. I've called this "lie-fi" as a joke in the past, but I'm not sure this is good enough to put in the UI.
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Jul 27 2017
Thanks for the feature request. Paul Irish requested this as well and I haven't landed a "Lie-Fi" preset because it's not easy to adequately describe it in the UI. I've seen LieFi in a few articles but is there a more widely-used term we could use? Also, I recently added help tooltips for Device Mode mobile throttling (see screenshot). Any suggestions on a pithy way of describing this in the UI?
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Nov 13 2017
Haven't been able to identify an adequate UI solution for this "Lie-Fi" use case. If there's a pharsing / Google developer article we can use, feel free to re-open and I'll add it in. |
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Comment 1 by dgozman@chromium.org
, Jul 27 2017Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)