Bret Taylor’s Google Maps rewrite matters because it helped turn the web from static pages into something that could fe…
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Bret Taylor’s Google Maps rewrite matters because it helped turn the web from static pages into something that could feel like real software. Before that shift, many web tools still behaved like documents, forcing users to wait for pages to reload after every small action. AJAX changed that by letting data update in the background, which later shaped products like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and countless modern web apps.
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