404 error messages have probably become a " legendary " error code that everyone has encountered at least 3 to 4 times. It usually appears with faulty addresses, indicating that the server cannot find the address the user wants to search. However, it seems that Google is trying to end the display of the above error message and expects users to be able to interact with the site even without a network connection.
A new Google project has just been launched called " Service Workers ", which aims to store the site during the most recent access time before it is disconnected from the server ( or simply the device of You do not turn on the internet ) to the device cache. So, even without an Internet connection, you can still access that website instead of feeling bored when you see the error code appear.
" We want users to see something instead of nothing, " says Alex Russell , Google's software engineer.
The advantage of this is that the website you visit often can be loaded faster because the website is uploaded and displayed from the device's cache instead of downloading from that site's server each time it is accessed. counter. The page will only be updated when there is a network connection and you reload the website, this will help save a considerable fee for you. The following video will explain further:
The downside of this is that you will have to cede part of the phone's memory to all the offline data of a website. The web browser on your device will also take more resources to operate.
Of course, Google is still testing this project before applying it to its Chrome browser, expected later this year. It is known that Firefox is also implementing a similar idea.