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Gmail is literally a document browser. I think Google Maps might be a better example.
by satyrnein 7y ago
Gmail is literally a document browser. I think Google Maps might be a better example.
- sgustard 7y agoAmen. I feel like no one remembers the days of Mapquest where you'd click "next tile" and then watch the page reload just to scroll a few miles north, then repeat.
- x3haloed 7y agoGoogle Maps is definitely a great example. I chose Gmail as my example, because from what I've read, that's where XHR was born, which is what I view as the birth of web apps. It's the idea that you don't have to pull an entirely new document from a server to update a small part of the view. I think that transforms the web from a simple document transfer system into something capable of behaving like an application.
- youngtaff 7y agoMicrosoft developed XHR in 1999 to support Outlook on the web.