HTML 5 current work is too big and crashes my browser

[fritz the cat]

Hi. Great work, but every so often I am reading about HTML 5, someone points a link to the current work page
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/
and it's so massive and has so much 'clever' stuff in it my browser can't cope and crashes.

Can't you guys splt it into smaller chunks, or at least remove the floating searchboxes and other clever stuff?

Thanks.

[JAB Creations]

If you get an error message I recommend searching for it first and foremost to see what others have posted.

If you're using Firefox considering creating a new profile to see if your existing profile is the cause of your troubles.

How much RAM do you have? You should run at least 1GB on XP, 4GB on Vista/7.

[fritz the cat]

Hi. I had posted the wrong link
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/

I know theres a multipage version but for some reason a lot of people seem to point to the monster page.

It happens on FF OS XI tried on 3 different machines with RAM between 4 and 8Gb. Surely enough to read some specs on the internet. Also tried creating a new profile, no difference. I don't get an error message, it just freezes and eventually crashes.

It seems common sense that if you have a content heavy page you shouldn't have all those floating notes and divs and eye candy. Think of handheld devices or browsers with memory leaks.

[JAB Creations]

Yeah it crashed my copy of Firefox and I have a pretty capable system myself. I honestly think the page needs to exploded down to chapters instead.

[zcorpan]

Use http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... multipage/ or http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... ow-browser

[fritz the cat]

I am aware those pages exist but I have no control over whether other websites link to it or to the monster page.

Why can't you just guys admit that page is a bad idea and change it. I am sure other people had the same problem but couldn't be bothered to get back to your site once their browser crashed, create an account on your message baord and post a description of the problem.