Proposing Removal of the Offline Browser Startpage

[Matthew East]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> 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.

That's a good point too. The historical reason is that the page was
originally used even if the user was online, before start.ubuntu.com
was established. One solution would be to redesign the page and remove
the links, but I still believe the better and cleaner solution is to
remove the page entirely and rely on the browser's own offline page.

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Matthew East
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