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Tangent: This reminds me of a rumor I heard about gmail. Rumor had it, one of the ways the inbox loaded as fast as it did when you logged in is because as soon
by famousactress 13y ago
Tangent: This reminds me of a rumor I heard about gmail. Rumor had it, one of the ways the inbox loaded as fast as it did when you logged in is because as soon as they identified your email address (and before you typed your password) they'd kick of a job to start pulling things into memory so that your inbox would be ready to go once you logged in. If true, kind of a neat hack.
- reubenmorais 13y agoSimilarly (and this isn't just a rumor), if you leave your mouse on top of a related video on YouTube, once you click it the load is almost instantaneous.
- dbpatterson 13y agoSeems possible. When you type in your address, it sends a request to https://mail.google.com/mail?gxlu=YOUREMAIL&zx=TIMESTAMP https://mail.google.com/mail?gxlu=YOUREMAIL&zx=TIMESTAMP The response is empty, at least in my browser, so unless that is only true sometimes, the only plausible explanation is for it to be causing something to occur server side.
- rmrfrmrf 13y agoThat's pretty similar to the way that Facebook graph search works, so it wouldn't surprise me. If anything, you just open up devtools and check for an XMLHttpRequest when you tab into the password field.