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> Example: Situations where the user would be likely to have very unreliable connection and be on the page with the email field for some time with other data entered that they wouldn't want to lose.

Data entered in a form don't require an active connection. If submitting the form fails you can resubmit it.

Usually such issues start to appear when companies decide to implement their own custom UI from the ground up in a way that the result can only be described as undefined behaviour and things like input fields reset their state when you look at them the wrong way.



> Data entered in a form don't require an active connection.

Such an important property of the web. Server sends a description of what it wants, client renders and handles interactions. Things like server side rendering are anti-web.

Server-side rendering, streaming video, and such aren’t incompatible with internet philosophies in the slightest, just not aligned with the intent of the www. Apps, even the ones that aren’t merely web views, are more www-like in this regard.




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