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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by cesarb on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:39AM (#25302089)
> You have mini extension in browser to just auto refresh gmail

That existed without JavaScript (and IIRC it was somewhat common back when JavaScript was a novelty): <meta http-equiv="Refresh: 60">

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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by ptx on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:04AM (#25302975)
Periodically tearing down the entire UI while the user is in the middle of using it is a terrible user experience.
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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by TomGullen on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:49AM (#25304520)
That’s not how it was usually implemented though, you’d have frameless iframes that refreshed - eg for chat rooms etc
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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by ptx on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:34PM (#25305944)
Did it preserve the scroll position when refreshing? If so, that might be OK for a chat room. But an email inbox is more interactive, so I think it would be jarring to have that refresh as you're poking at it.
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