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I think you would never feel this with Pivotal tracker, Gmail or other well designed apps. Its easy to cache rendered htnk elements in js and show them when bac
by prateekdayal 15y ago
I think you would never feel this with Pivotal tracker, Gmail or other well designed apps. Its easy to cache rendered htnk elements in js and show them when back button is pressed and then update them in the background (in fact this is what we do).
If the initial page load is a problem, you can use a CDN to distribute the javascript files. I am not sure about the scroll problem though. Thanks for pointing it out
- jasonkester 15y agoGmail seems to fix the "back" issue by going out of their way to break the "open in new window" experience. Ctrl+clicking messages to open them in new tabs takes up so much of your life waiting for them to load that you quickly become trained not to try doing that. The thing is, the more pieces of the browser that you try to replace with javascript, the more opportunities you have to get them subtly wrong. Just watch the discussion here whenever somebody submits an article using that wordpress plugin that tries to replicate an iPad's scrolling functionality inside of your iPad. It's just barely different, but that's why it's so annoying. If it were completely different, it actually wouldn't be a problem at all. But it's not. It just feels like it's not working right.
- simonw 15y agoGmail's terrible performance / unresponsiveness is the bane of my working life at the moment. I'd be a lot happier if I could open real HTML pages for emails in new tabs.
- india 15y agoGmail does have a basic html view[1]. [1] https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=h