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joepie91@slightly.tech ("joepie91 needs to say yes to more things (🔜 eth0)") wrote:
something that irks me about SPAs ("Single Page Applications")... they were originally popularized on the basis of being "more responsive than a normal website"
and for a time, this was actually true! I would know, because I was building them before Facebook was, and in a progressively-enhanced way to boot, something many websites *still* don't do today...
the only problem is... by the time this technique got a name ("SPA") and became popular and widespread, it had *already* stopped being true, because browsers had already improved enough to all but eliminate the UX difference, and IE (the biggest offender here) was already dying.
in other words: the claim that popularized SPAs was never actually true at any point during its streak of popularity. it didn't "used to be true" in any way that matters. the technique was dead before it even got adopted, and has been a walking zombie ever since, coasting by on superstitious beliefs of performance.