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I disagree. Gmail is what popularized single page app ajaxy webmail client. If i remember, xmlhttprequest was originally for the desktop outlook client not the

I disagree. Gmail is what popularized single page app ajaxy webmail client. If i remember, xmlhttprequest was originally for the desktop outlook client not the website. Gmail was special because it was a website not desktop app. Edit: seems like i'm wrong. I'd still argue that gmail is what brought it to popular attention for the masses.

userbinator 3y ago
Desktop Outlook had no need for XHR --- it was a native application. As the parent comment's link and this link therein says, XHR was used for the web client: https://web.archive.org/web/20090130092236/http://www.alexhopmann.com/xmlhttp.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090130092236/http://www.alexho...
JBiserkov 3y ago
In my memories it was Google Maps that brought AJAX to the masses.