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Re:A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax ... by blablabla123 on Friday July 06, 2012 @09:38AM (#4207617)
If I understood it correctly, this framework is only used for the mobile site.

I can hardly think of any other well-known website that is more complex than Facebook. Every little screen space is used, you can click anywhere and it has hundreds of millions of users.

Compare the Facebook interface to the Google Interfaces and you know what I mean.

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Re:A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax ... by taybenlor on Friday July 06, 2012 @09:58AM (#4207714)
Because google wasn't able to build anything complex with JS, like say, a document editor that synchronises changes across multiple clients.
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Re:A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax ... by BHSPitMonkey on Friday July 06, 2012 @10:48AM (#4207949)
Technically, Writely built that editor, and Google acquired Writely.
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Re:A large, bloated JS framework with an unintuitive syntax ... by kylemathews on Friday July 06, 2012 @01:31PM (#4208777)
Google Spreadsheets predates the Writely purchase and in any case, that purchase was in 2006, 6 years ago, so almost certainly Google Docs is 2-3 code rewrites past whatever the Writely team wrote.
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