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Re: "Pre-checking page links as an option?"
It's not silly, but to test a link, you have to make a request to fetch the page for that link, so it will be pretty resource-intensive and generate a lot of traffic (unnecessarily). Of course you could keep track of the links you've tested and only try them once, but a dead link some day can come back alive later on, so ... Rather than a mode, you could have a keyboard shortcut to run a check on the page's links, that seems fine to me.
Nov 29 · 4 weeks ago
🍵 michaelnordmeyer · Nov 30 at 00:14:
It would me more efficient if the linking server checks its links periodicly and deals with broken links.
Pre-checking page links as an option? — I wouldn't doubt what I'm about to express having been tried, found to be too resource intensive, or just plain silly... but have any browsers ever tried having a setting that enables a mode in which the browser tests links (not fetching an entire page in the process, of course (assuming that's possible)), and shows what it considers broken/dead links in some color that means "broken/dead link"? I'm just saying, exploring Gemini pages leads to an...