[MatejKafka]

My personal issue with SPAs is that the experience is often not really better than the old school way, it's just the the issues and failure modes are different. SPAs tend to be slower to load, break platform conventions by re-implementing browser behavior and they're are more stateful, making invalid states harder to recover from.

Personally, unless the interactivity is needed (i.e. web apps, not web pages), I prefer a more basic site where I can be reasonably sure that UI will work the same way as everywhere else, even if it's not as fluid.

[jillesvangurp]

I think that's very subjective. SPAs load pretty quickly on a modern network. It's pretty much a non issue unless you are a bit OCD about such things. And I've seen some nice examples of SPAs that are actually quite nice to use. Mostly we're talking about the content of 2 or 3 floppy disks from way back (I'm old enough to have used those). Even back then that wasn't a lot. Many interesting things required multiple floppy disks.

My observation is that people vote with their feet. Including developers. The developers who complain the most about this stuff aren't actually building a whole lot worth talking about.

Anyway, it's hard to break conventions when the convention has actually been SPAs for quite some time now. Most major websites are simply not very old school at this point, to put it mildly. That stopped being good enough a long time ago.

[freetonik]

My issue with SPAs is that I very often end up in an incorrect state. I don't know, maybe I'm using a browser wrong? I'm clicking on things, pressing back and forward, and almost daily in some SPA app I get to either a blank screen or some error. I then refresh, and inevitably lose the state, as the URL would likely not match the latest correct state of the app.