@tomw Nothing on the internet works in the UK when you’re between good 4G coverage (every time the train leaves a station). It’s all or nothing. Even my 11ty personal site won’t load. 3G has become the new GPRS/Edge.
@SamStrong Yeah - what's frustrating is the kind of site that works fine in good signal, breaks itself in the bad signal patch, and then totally fails to recover once signal returns
@tomw@SamStrong Packaged mobile apps can be even more difficult to debug, because physical network failures can cause error states that are basically almost impossible to simulate. That is why some mobile telecom operators have isolated testing environments where they can give app developers time for testing errors with a physical hardware. For example, how does streaming apps work when base stations are overloaded? 4G/5G network systems have a lot of different failure states.
@tomw are you telling me I first have to develop and deploy an entire train network complete with sketchy wifi just so I can test my JS web forms, wow, no wonder webdev is such a challenge
@tomw well that will make it much simpler to establish a proper test environment, as I just have to deploy a train network and let the existing mobile network do its thing
@tomw Yeah. I lived and worked in Europe for 10 years based in London. I know your pain. But most Americans don’t, and a crap-ton of software comes out of places that have absurdly good internet, even on mobile.
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