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Re:Why do all websites look the same? by freehunter on Friday November 09, 2018 @05:01PM (#18418419)
What you're describing is not a web site, but an application delivered through the web browser. Sites in the past were smaller and faster because they were just web sites. Today we have a whole host of applications delivered through the browser, with the Internet as the hard drive they're loaded from.

It's not a valid comparison at all. Compare the time it takes to download and install Thunderbird versus the time it takes to log into Gmail, and there you'll have a valid comparison. Compare the time it takes to install Office versus the time it takes to log into Excel Online and there you'll have a valid comparison. And in comparison, it's a hell of a lot faster.

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Re:Why do all websites look the same? by paulryanrogers on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:28PM (#18419943)
Gmail in 2018 feels like I'm downloading Thunderbird every time it opens. Ideally I'd only need to load it all once and then it'll be cached for faster load next time. But maybe that's too much to ask when changes must be deployed multiple times a day.

And yet the Gmail experience is not significantly better than non-JS alternatives, at least for m my use cases.

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