How Gmail AJAX works

Posted by vinhboy on Friday, March 20th, 2009 in Internet.

First they show you the inbox, then in the background they use a POST request and load all your mail messages ( the mail body ) in as a JSON.

That is how they are able to let you jump instantaneously from your inbox to your mail messages without any delay.

I used Firebug to look into this because I have been curious how high trafficked websites handle their AJAX response.

One Comment

envy Says (June 30th, 2009):

Interesting..

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