Edge browser ditches react for a faster WebUI 2.0

> In April 2004, Google launched one of the first web apps that worked just like a native app: Gmail

I thought it was Outlook that pioneered Ajax. It's not even mentioned in the article.

> In 1998, the Microsoft Outlook Web Access team developed the concept behind the XMLHttpRequest scripting object

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

Wasn't the old old Windows Update a web app that used ActiveX?

> “Starting with Edge 122, the Browser Essentials UI is now much more responsive. The UI is now 42% faster for Edge users and a whopping 76% faster for those of you on a device without an SSD or with less than 8GB RAM!”

If their old frontend was reading from disk enough for it to cause a 76% opportunity, their performance problems had nothing to do with React.

Open source WebUI 2.0 library https://github.com/webui-dev/webui ?