> HTML5 will also help in building new features. One feature that the Gmail design team is now working on is the ability to drag files from the desktop into the browser.
Working on? I've been using this for the past few months, ever since I heard about it. One time I wanted to send an attachment on a machine without Firefox or Chrome. I didn't bother, because it would have taken too long for the value it would have added to the email.
"If the browser supports CSS3, Gmail will render the pages using these specifications, rather than its traditional approach of using the Document Object Model (DOM)."
Better go build a GUI in Visual Basic to track the IP as well!
Maybe CSS-powered manipulations instead of using JS to manipulate the DOM directly? As in, tag it with a class and use CSS to animate + hide + everything beyond that, instead of using a JS effects library.
It's great that they're using HTML5 for their purposes, but unfortunately they still rank among the worst for supporting HTML in the actual emails. http://www.email-standards.org/
You can't even include background images in GMail.
"You can't even include background images in GMail." Thank goodness. The people who use background images in email where the background is a notebook paper or similar are troubling.
Working on? I've been using this for the past few months, ever since I heard about it. One time I wanted to send an attachment on a machine without Firefox or Chrome. I didn't bother, because it would have taken too long for the value it would have added to the email.