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Google is asleep at the wheel. This makes them look bad. Gmail blew the doors off every other webmail client when it launched 5 years ago but it's time for a
by MatthewPhillips 14y ago
Google is asleep at the wheel. This makes them look bad. Gmail blew the doors off every other webmail client when it launched 5 years ago but it's time for a rewrite. The fact that they used Gmail mobile as their "Gmail Offline" product in Chrome tells me that the current client can't be modernized. I only hope that is what the Sparrow guys are going to be working on, because Microsoft isn't the company you would expect to be leading in HTML5 innovation.
- crescentfresh 14y agooutlook.com's DOCTYPE: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoWhat is wrong with using xhtml?
- Bootvis 14y agoThat isn't "leading HTML5 innovation" but I got your point ;)
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoAh, ok, I was talking about their use of CSS3 transitions primarily.
- crescentfresh 14y agoCSS3 is not [part of] HTML5. CSS3 is just what came after CSS2.
- MartinCron 14y agoit's time for a rewrite That sent a shiver down my spine. Please, Google, don't rewrite gmail. Continue improving incrementally. Thanks.
- emidln 14y agoGmail was only launched 5 years ago? I'm almost positive I had gmail at least in mid 2004.
- barik 14y agoDepends on how you define launch I guess. Gmail began as invite-only around 2004, I believe. Publicly available, but still in beta around 2007, and released from beta in 2009. If you use the publicly available date, then it's about 5 years.