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Web browsers were designed to deliver stateless documents to users. Modern users want content delivered to them in a personal, rapid, contextual(stateful) mann

• sidlls 9y ago
  > Modern users want content delivered to them in a personal, rapid, contextual(stateful) manner Is that actually true? Maybe it's that web developers want to deliver content in this way and try to do it with the browser instead of a native application more fit for purpose and they don't actually give a damn about what the user wants.
  • com2kid 9y ago
    > Is that actually true? Maybe it's that wev developers want to deliver content in this way and try to do it with the browser instead of a native application more fit for purpose and they don't actually give a damn about what the user wants. Remember old forums that made you load each and every reply in a thread? Compare that to Reddit which allows for collapsing and expanding of threads, and for async loading of reply chains that go on for too long. Being able to open-in-place media users link to was a huge reason for the uptake of Reddit Enhancement Suite, now, a feature built into Reddit. Upvoting not taking users to a new page or reloading the page (compare to how Slashdot used to do it!), all these features involve maintaining state. Same thing for most bug tracking apps. If I am triaging a list of bugs, a SPA is the way to go, I don't want to spend more time on page loads then on marking triage status.