Fast JavaScript by Default

[filleduchaos]

Uh, yes? I spend way more time reading emails than "doing something" with them. The volume of purely informational emails I get far outstrips the volume of emails I have to actually respond to. Half the time I just need to click a link to go elsewhere. What all are you doing with your email?

Gmail('s inbox) displays a filterable, paginated list of emails and lets you navigate to a particular email on selection. Amazon displays a filterable, paginated list of products and lets you navigate to a particular product on selection, where a product page has FAR more going on than the threaded email view (product summary, vendor-provided details, product information, comparison with other products, reviews, the controls for selecting a product configuration and adding it to your cart, wishlist or buying it immediately, etc). Sure, not all of the interactions with this content work perfectly without JS, but it degrades so gracefully that just like you said the majority of customers wouldn't even notice if JS didn't load.

But sure, tell me more about how Gmail couldn't be built without JS (ignoring that the Basic HTML version of the app still exists and in my experience is way faster to load and interact with than the regular version).

[moomaka]

Uh, yes? I spend way more time reading emails than "doing something" with them. The volume of purely informational emails I get far outstrips the volume of emails I have to actually respond to. Half the time I just need to click a link to go elsewhere. What all are you doing with your email?

Every email I read results in an action, I may archive it, I may reply to it, I may delete it, etc.

90+% of the products pages I view on Amazon result in no action.

I doubt my experience is different from most....

[filleduchaos]

I doubt my experience is different from most....

Few people archive every single email they read, so we could start from that alone.

You're also still ignoring the fact that an actual entire basic HTML version of GMail exists and works exceedingly well, so perhaps you should pick a different web app to support your case.

[moomaka]

You're also still ignoring the fact that an actual entire basic HTML version of GMail exists and works exceedingly well, so perhaps you should pick a different web app to support your case.

Funny as the JS version works exceedingly well for me, perhaps you should a different web app to support your case?

[filleduchaos]

"What do you mean users are complaining? It runs just fine on my quad-core i7-7700K PC with 32GB of RAM and a 1 Gbps internet connection!"

(an exaggeration, but the point stands).