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> Overture is a powerful JS library for building really slick web applications, with performance at, or surpassing, native apps. Surpassing native apps? Yeah,

• StavrosK 9y ago
  Have you used Fastmail? The UI is definitely on par, and probably faster, than my OS's native apps. I've long wondered how they do that, now I know.
  • fnl 9y ago
    As a FastMail user, I must say the UI startup time is painfully loooong ...
    • StavrosK 9y ago
      It certainly is. At least it's faster than Thunderbird.
    • Scarbutt 9y ago
      Like gmail long? also, isn't something you open two/three times a day and leave it open?
    • dividuum 9y ago
      Can't confirm. Reloading the page takes at most two seconds with a multi GB inbox. I've can't remember ever feeling that their initial page load time is slow. Odd.
    • chrismorgan 9y ago
      As a FastMail user and staff member, I agree. You’ll be glad to know that when we implement offline support soon (and I’ve been looking forward to doing that since before I started working at FastMail!), startup will be much, much faster, because it will no longer need to ask the server a few questions before it can load the UI—it will already have the answers (though it’ll then ask the server whether anything changed since last time, once it’s finished loading). I believe network latency is the largest factor in the current slow startup; I imagine it’s a second or more faster in the US than it is in Australia or Spain.
      • fnl 9y ago
        Well, I'm baffled. :-) Thanks for this great response, looking forward to the changes!
  • valuearb 9y ago
    So you mean that it's faster than my OS's slowest native apps.
• helb 9y ago
  > Site is working now! …aand it's down again. Seems someone or something just increased that "daily limit" from 1000 to 2000 MB …