Proposing Removal of the Offline Browser Startpage

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Donnerstag, den 19.08.2010, 08:05 +0100 schrieb Matthew East:
> Dear all,
> 
> It seems to me that the current offline startpage serves no useful
> purpose. Essentially if users use firefox and are not connected to the
> internet, ubufox shows them the offline startpage which is found at
> file:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html. That file has been
> shipped in the ubuntu-docs package since Dapper. However, it seems to
> me to be the wrong approach - when a user is not connected to the
> internet and opens their browser, they shouldn't be shown a page that
> looks like a web page, because it might confuse them into thinking
> they are connected. What I believe they should see is information that
> they are not connected to the internet. And that's what a browser will
> always do if it tries to connect to a remote webpage and there is no
> working internet connection.

Yes, dropping this page is a good idea. If you have no internet
connection, you can't open the links on this page, which renders the
page slightly useless.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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