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June 21, 2004
First Impressions of Gmail
I was fortunate enough to receive a Gmail Invitation recently (after a lonf wait) and I have to say that I was pretty impressed by the web application. It is certainly fast, it is certainly a new 'paradigm' in the world of email and the overall look seems very good on a usability point of view (although I would certainly make some suggestions on improving some points).
However, I do find that the weakest point in this is the fact that the application is purely javascript. This apart from the fact that it produces serious accesibility provblems has a disadvantage for Google itself: Gmail is subject to the javascript standard that is supported by browsers at any moment. Web developers that have coded in javascript for cross browser support know very well that this is a rather sore point in browsers support.
Does this mean that Microsoft can turn things upside down for Google with a new version of Internet Explorer? I dont think that matters can go so bad that this will ever happen, but I am a bit surprised with the unconditional relying of Google on the javascript technology.
Posted by Basileios at June 21, 2004 05:03 AM
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