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sgustardyesterday at 5:45 AM1 replyview on HN

> How would google maps work in a Web 1.0 world?

We had that in the form of MapQuest, and it was agonizingly slow. Click to load the next tile, wait for the page to reload, and repeat. Modern SPAs are a revelation.


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vinnymacyesterday at 3:20 PM

What’s cool is that with html includes (import specification) we could have supported this without any JS.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html-imports/