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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by reaperducer on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:33PM (#24057029)
Was Gmail always an SPA? My recollection is that it was a regular web site when it launched, and went SIA when everyone else did.
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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by xenomachina on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @01:15AM (#24057482)
Gmail has been a SPA since launch. There were some pre-launch versions that were not, and it has always had a plain HTML fallback mode.

I believe there may have been some major changes to the way it did the client-side rendering a few years after it launched. The original version was more ad hoc, since it was pretty much the first time anyone (at Google, at least) had built a real SPA. Later they built tools and libraries, and developed a more systematic way of doing things. (I was at Google during that time period, but never worked on Gmail.)

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