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Google Begins "Gmail 2.0" Rollout
Stony Stevenson writes "Google on Tuesday confirmed it is giving Gmail a new look. This blog post has screenshots of a new Gmail interface that has been made available to a limited number of users. They are calling it "Gmail 2.0" even if Google isn't. Google confirmed the update is underway at its new San Francisco office, just prior to a briefing on an unrelated upcoming Google announcement. A Google spokesperson said that the new look has been made available to about one percent of all Gmail users and is being rolled out the rest on an ongoing basis."
...thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite...I highly doubt that GMail uses JavaScript on the back-end. In fact, it is pretty well known that GMail is written in Java and only uses JavaScript on the front-end.
Apparently, one of Google's goal in releasing this new version is to provide a new code framework that will help them to speed up Gmail's response time in a number of areas. One feature of note is that Gmail now pre-fetches and caches messages in the current view, so when you click on a message, it loads almost instantly. On my broadband connection, I see much improved response--clicking a message now displays it almost instantly--no lags or delays.
-Jim
http://gmailtips.com/
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
Clicking "Turn off chat" at the bottom in the new version instead of "Standard without chat" in the exact same location in the old version is tougher? Hell, it's even tough at all? You're mad they make it easier to communicate with a new service they enabled for your convenience, and even madder when the link to disable it is clearly labeled on the default page?
How exactly DID you (or your wife) manage to turn your computer on today?
IMAP seem to be only rolled out to people with English(US) language settings at the moment. To enable IMAP, I had to:
1) Change the language setting from English(UK) to English(US).
2) Go back to settings, and then into the newly available "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab.
3) Enable IMAP.
4) Configure my client (Thunderbird) and make a successful connection.
5) Go back into the settings, and change the language back to English(UK). The "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab changes back to just "Forwarding and POP".
6) Continue using my sweet, sweet, IMAP.
This method is hit and miss it seems. But hopefully some people might be lucky.
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I'm guessing they are calling it 2.0 because of the URL: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2 instead of http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1
But they should be calling it Gmail UI2 instead of 2.0.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
LifeHacker says the Firefox people are already working to get plug-ins and extensions functioning with the new system, and expect to have things harmonized in very short order.
My bare-bones Thunderbird likes GMail's IMAP just fine, but I don't know about the bells and whistles some people need/use.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I tried it and it sends me back to the old one.
Just use the Customize Google firefox plugin. It will automatically do that for you.
It doesn't.
Just set your bookmark to https://mail.google.com/ - you'll start & stay in SSL. I've been doing this for a really long time ( I can't remember when I even created the bookmarks I have in all my browsers to do exactly this. )
Please ignore any obvious problems in this post.
That's not what he said at all. Learn to read.
It works much better on my iPod touch. For one I automatically get mobile view instead of defaulting to (an extremely slow to load) full html view, and now there is a "basic html" option, which works a lot faster than how the full html view worked before. The full html view is no longer available, though.
--- What?
Well, first of all, my initial thought was "WTF happened to my Gmail?" because this change occurred the same day that I installed OS X 10.5 (and the new Safari). Now that I know the changes were made on Gmail's end, it makes more sense.
1) For a while yesterday, the new titlebar/tab of the main Gmail window said: Gmail - Inbox - username@gmail.com (where username is my account name). Now it just says "Gmail". That's right, it doesn't update anymore to say "Inbox (1)" when I get a new mail.
2) Hovering over names in your message list gives a new style pop-up that shows the person's name, email address, and picture. Across the top of the pop-up are styled gradient buttons that say "Email", "Invite to Chat", and "More...". Clicking More will show options for "Recent Conversations" and "Show in Contact List: Auto, Always Show, Never Show, Blocked". Previously, hovering over names in the message list just showed you their email address. The new functionality seems similar to what the old version did when you hovered over your contact / chat list in the sidebar.
3) Chat now works in Safari. There are new (?) options for the chat list, including "Size of chat list: tiny, small, medium, large" and "Show in chat list: Most popular, all". (This may not be new, I never used G Chat in a browser because it didn't work on Safari before).
4) There are new actions to apply to messages. One is "Filter messages like these" the other is "mute". I'm not sure what mute does.
5) As the linked article says, Contacts management is now vastly different. It actually still looks a bit unfinished (or maybe it's just Safari's rendering, but I doubt it).
http://www.plaxo.com/ lets me sync gmail contacts to my iPhone - via Apple Address Book and iSync. As a bonus, it also syncs my google calandar too. the only drawback is that i have to trust yet another web company with my information.
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
Also, if you want to do subfolders with IMAP as such:
Family/Joe
Family/Joe/DamnForwards
Family/Mary
Family/Mom
Family/Bob
Family/Dad
You just have to create labels exactly like that and your IMAP folders should behave as prescribed.
Didn't work for me either.
I'm guessing that either this only works for enabled accounts or they said "oops" and turned off that functionality for accounts that don't have access to the new UI. I'm guessing that this never activated accounts for the new UI.
Try:
http://www.companionlink.com/downloads/
http://www.scheduleworld.com/tg/cal/day.jsp
and of course, the open source
http://www.gcalsync.com/
It's stunning that Yahoo fixed this ages ago. You get a free app to download to your desktop, (Intellisync - works fine).
This from someone who has to sync blackberry, notes, outlook, tbird, act! and oh god I'm going to kill myself if they add any more fsuking apps...just call me 'lord of the ugly hack'
P.S. Dawn takes some of the pain away for non-technical users if doing 'one-way' conversions with CSVs
Gmail's IMAP is broken for any messages in a non-american 7-bit character set, which is why they only enable it for people who declare their default language as EN_US.
I just tried one of my IMAP enabled accounts again, and accented characters (ISO-8859-1 and -14) either show up as a ?, are replaced by the 7 bit equivalent (é becomes i), or are missing. There is a lot of work to shoehorn real-world language support into the IMAP protocol. It's an area I've actively avoided, but could be why the rollout is only for people likely to receive only US-ASCII or CodePage=437.
the AC
Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
Firefox + GreaseMonkey + http://blog.persistent.info/2005/12/greasemonkey-christmas.html
I believe there might even be a Firefox extension that does this..