Google Bringing HTML5 To Gmail 112
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."
Re:Thats not new (Score:2, Insightful)
"now if they would allow you to insert inline graphics"
yea that is what we need.
No thanks I wish we would go back to text only. Less chance of an exploit when you are just dealing with just text.
Attachments are fine.
Re:Slower and slower (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Thats not new (Score:3, Insightful)
"now if they would allow you to insert inline graphics" yea that is what we need. No thanks I wish we would go back to text only. Less chance of an exploit when you are just dealing with just text. Attachments are fine.
Feel free to go back to 1990--or disable rich text or HTML rendering in your client. (Hopefully they are already disabled from unknown senders by default.) The rest of us appreciate legitimate uses of HTML+CSS, including inline images, in our e-mail.
Re:What competition do they have? (Score:4, Insightful)
I agree that Gmail is so far ahead of its webmail competition such as Yahoo and Hotmail. The biggest feature, however, is Gmail's junk filter. Nary a piece of junkmail gets into my inbox and false positives are exceedingly rare. However, it's pretty disconcerting if this success is due to their understanding of your behaviors. Haha. The Gmail interface is very quick and efficient. It loads and works quickly. I also I love how Gmail doesn't ask for confirmation but rather gives you the option to undo a delete.
Re:HTML5 "Enhanced" Sites (Score:3, Insightful)
Unless your other accounts are done through Google Apps [google.com], in which case, it's sign out, find the Google Account's sign in page for the correct domain, then sign in.
Re:HTML5 "Enhanced" Sites (Score:3, Insightful)
The simple solution I found is to use Firefox's private browsing to check another gmail account.
I can check a different account's email using "private", then easily switch back to regular and my voicemail, calendar and docs tabs haven't logged me out. (Or worse, put that other email's contacts into MY voicemail account.)
(The only liability I can imagine is not being able to directly add something to your calendar while having the email open, but you could use gCal or some other firefox plugin to get around that I'd presume.)