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Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by gbear605 on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:31AM (#23193334)
Even gmail and Google Maps aren’t what they used to be. On a machine that isn’t top of the line, Gmail takes ten+ seconds to load to interactivity, and then going to each email takes five or so seconds. It’s basically unusable.
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Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by reaperducer on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:57AM (#23193673)
On a machine that isn’t top of the line, Gmail takes ten+ seconds to load to interactivity, and then going to each email takes five or so seconds

For giggles, I just loaded HN on a 2011 MacBook Air. It took just under 2 seconds for the front page.

Then I loaded GMail on the same machine. 15 seconds to the front page. Plus, it came in with 21 errors ranging from invalid headers to invalid sources to cross-origin issues.

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Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by gbear605 on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:00PM (#23194465)
The errors are really embarrassing. Come on Google, how hard is it to just not have cross-origin issues?
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Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by juped on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:09PM (#23194585)
There's no good reason for an email client to be a SPA rather than normal web pages with some scripting to get pushed relevant updates.
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