Challenges of building modern web apps with all the browsers out there (thanks to everyone who made IE6 Gmail work!) - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008...
Benjamin Golub,
Steve Chou,
Sanjeev Singh,
Paul Buchheit,
Ryan Anderson,
Ihar Mahaniok,
Varun Mahajan,
Dustin,
Niv,
Adewale Oshineye,
Matt Cutts,
Joe Beda,
Atul Arora,
Niranjan Tulpule,
Ionut,
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Todd Jackson
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I love this: "Over the last few months, we've been working with the IE engineers at Microsoft to address these issues: they released a critical update to their JavaScript implementation that fixed a performance problem with how the script engine allocates and frees memory."
- Paul Buchheit
No, things will have to work with ie6 for a long time, but what they can do is make some of the enhanced features be Chrome-only (things that aren't possible in other browsers).
- Paul Buchheit
Hopefully, we'll never see "to get this cool feature in Gmail, install Chrome". A plug-in like Gears is a reasonable requirement, though.
- Ionut
I wonder if that IE fix addresses the problems we've been having. Does anybody know the KB article for it?
- Gabe
What is the issue Gabe? I believe the problem they fixed was with GC performance once there were a large number of objects.
- Paul Buchheit
Here's the KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb...
- Keith Coleman
Paul: The problem is that after running for some time the app just becomes untenably slow. Our hypothesis was that the GC would run a collection on every allocation once there got to be too many objects, and we were exceeding that limit. I seem to recall you were quite skeptical at the time, Paul, because Gmail hadn't run into that problem.
- Gabe