On: WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines

[oinksoft]

You seriously underestimate the complexity of Gmail. It may well be the most complex JavaScript application in existence with an appreciable user base.

[malandrew → oinksoft]

Asana to me feels far more complex and robust than Gmail. There are tons of things I can do that feel desktop like in Asana, that I can't do in Gmail.

[tomjen3 → oinksoft]

Are you arguing that Gmail is more complicated than google docs?

[oinksoft → tomjen3]

You make a fair argument. Google has several state-of-the-art JS applications. I thought of Gmail in particular because it probably sees much higher demand and so matters of optimization are probably a bit more important to it. This makes the amount of network activity, client-side caching, etc. it manages really impressive.

But no doubts that Google Docs is in the same ballpark.