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I use gmail's Basic HTML interface all the time. AJAXy gmail and Inbox balloon to incredible levels of memory use pretty quickly, and are slower for most intera
by ashark 10y ago
I use gmail's Basic HTML interface all the time. AJAXy gmail and Inbox balloon to incredible levels of memory use pretty quickly, and are slower for most interactions than the full-page loads on Basic HTML, which means that someone somewhere lost track of WTF they were supposed to be doing all of this for.
It's easily worth the loss of a couple features.
- stuckagain 10y agoThis is commonly stated but not true under all conditions. The full-blown GMail UI has extensive latency-hiding capabilities. The basic HTML UI has no latency-hiding features of any kind. If you are on a high-latency connection but you have some bandwidth available, you will have a much better experience with the full UI. Otherwise you face the full latency for every action. The Inbox UI is for some reason irredeemable. It is slow under all conditions.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoI just tried it. My GOD that's quick. I think I'll stick with the basic HTML version of Gmail.