Uhg, Twitter just broke old-twitter (UA=IE11) by making it so clicking on tweets no longer pops them up, but loads a new page and loses your place. Presumably to frustrate us enough to get us to switch away?
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I think that's a lot cause. I just wish the new tweet compose interface wasn't so buggy especially when using backspace. I keep making it crash and lose what I was writing. I did it while responding to you here. Can't even remember what I was in the process of writing before.
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I think I need to fake UA as a mobile browser because the mobile web version is the only one that doesn't suck.
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I used to like using that on the desktop because it's way lower latency / less bloated but apparently it's not simply available via mobile.twitter.com anymore or they replaced it with the new interface. I don't know...
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The new interface is reinventing text input and text display instead of doing things via standard semantic HTML which is major part of why it's so messed up. I can't even select a whole paragraph with double click reliably and the tweet composition is ridiculously buggy.
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Try double clicking on my tweet with a link. The link ends up screwing it up now. I don't know how they manage to break basic functionality like this or using backspace without crashing the entire web page somehow.
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So, I looked at the HTML for my tweet since I was genuinely curious how they broke this and I'm horrified. How can I unsee this? Also, this is exactly what I'm talking about when I refer to web pages becoming insanely obfuscated messes where content filtering becomes impractical.
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Imagine if they actually randomized these and made promoted tweets hard to differentiate. It's still possible right now since they aren't deliberately making it hard, but a couple little tweaks and blocking promoted tweets wouldn't be practical. They aren't far from that now...
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A policy of "non-semantic web will be slow" would fix it, with unified position from all major browsers.
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Wasn't one of the reasons Chrome got started so there could be richer web apps? This is just the end result of that.