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Re:There is a pure HTML Gmail, and it still works by camus2 on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:19AM (#7514067)
rightfully be very low on the priority list if it is a non-trivial engineering cost.

yeah like writing basic html is so hard and more expensive than maintaining piles of js code.

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Re:There is a pure HTML Gmail, and it still works by jonnydark on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:26AM (#7514255)
But it's not just HTML and CSS - you need to create a completely new user journey because you can't make asynchronous requests to the server. In some instances you may even need to manage server requests completely differently. UI elements may have to be changed as well as you can no longer rely on Javascript to animate them.

You're essentially maintaining a second UI that is divorced from your main UI. There's significant cost in that. It's the same reason most sites don't support IE6 anymore.

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