Google Bringing HTML5 To Gmail

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."

Comments

Re:Slower and slower

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm only 19 and I hate GMail's web interface. It's slow, it makes Firefox's memory usage shoot through the roof, and it's so much less productive than a real email client like Thunderbird or mutt.

It doesn't matter if I can access it from "any computer" if it's so slow and unwieldy that it's virtually unusable. Instead, I just installed the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X versions of Thunderbird onto a FAT32-formatted USB stick. It works on all of the computers I ever deal with, and unlike GMail's web interface, I don't have to sit there for 3 minutes just waiting for it to load.

Re:HTML5 "Enhanced" Sites

[Local ID10T]

Unless your other accounts are done through Google Apps, in which case, it's sign out, find the Google Account's sign in page for the correct domain, then sign in.

False.

You can be signed into both a regular gmail account and a Google apps hosted e-mail account at the same time. I normally have one tab open with my personal gmail account and another open with with my Google apps hosted business mail account...