benchmarks
What Happens When the Connection Drops? A Proposed Axis for Client Network Failure Handling (September 2026)
A proposed benchmark axis for what a generated app does when the user’s own connection fails mid-action. The HTML Standard defines navigator.onLine so that true means "might be online", and the Fetch Standard defines a failed request as a response with status zero, no headers and no body. Seven weighted signals, four postures, a ten-step protocol, and no scores.
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