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Gmail is an application, not a web page. The distinction isn't a technical one, but based on how users interact with it. It's still fair to complain about bloa
by Zak 6y ago
Gmail is an application, not a web page. The distinction isn't a technical one, but based on how users interact with it.
It's still fair to complain about bloat and performance issues, but users generally load Gmail once per browser session, making a large, slow load more excusable than it is for say, CNN.
- 0xy 6y agoUnless you're using an incorrect definition of application, then CNN is also an application. Arguably with far more functionality. The old version of Gmail had 90% of the features and was at least 3x faster and more responsive. If you load the new Gmail, immediately click the search when it's available and start typing it stutters and misses half of your inputs because they're totally pegging JS threads loading in all the bloatware. It's a far worse experience for almost no benefit (other than for the Google engineers who made the site 3x slower to use as leverage for promotions).