Peter Mount

The next service being killed by Google...

Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024

theregister.com/2023/09/25/gma

#gMail #google #killedByGoogle

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Dr. Guillermo Power :verified:

@peter It's a shame, traditional HTML Gmail is very nice and super fast, but I can understand Google's perspective on this one, if most users are on the new one and the new one has been out for over a decade I can see why they want to stop maintaining the legacy HTML email.

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Nodlek

@gpowerf @peter I only remember using it once because of poor internet. And I don't really think it makes a huge difference in that case anyway. I'm sure someone out there will be salty tho...

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Peter Mount

@Nodlek @gpowerf Like you I rarely used it and then only when using a slow mobile connection.

I can see how some, especially those visually impaired, could be impacted by this.

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Dr. Guillermo Power :verified:

@peter @Nodlek A use case is a boat with an Iridium GO connection. It's slow and the HTML version of Gmail works better.

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Nodlek

@gpowerf @peter yeah fair enough. I am no expert so i thought that you might automatically cache the regular frontend for the page. I might test it out later.

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