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Google Bringing HTML5 To Gmail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-goody-more-animation dept.

angry tapir writes "In keeping with Google's enthusiasm for the emerging HTML5 standard, many upcoming features of the company's Gmail Web-based e-mail service will be rendered in HTML5. One feature that the Gmail design team is now working on is the ability to drag files from the desktop into the browser. Gmail will also make use of HTML5's database standards. Currently the e-mail service uses Google Gears to store mail for offline reading, but over time that will migrate to the HTML5 standards."

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  1. Re:Slower and slower by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No matter how many features they pile into gmail, no matter how flashy and pretty they make it, any time I need to actually quickly check my email or read several in new tabs, I am going to use 'basic html view'.

    The advanced modes are better for searching/sorting though.

    Thank you for that insightful comment on trying to resist change, grandpa. We'll all just be over here, trading RAM for actual usability while wondering how long it took you to give up console-based email clients and move on to the horribly, HORRIBLY bloated and ugly and hideous and obviously evil web-based mail that takes up so much more precious, precious RAM on your well-preserved PDP-11.