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Title		GMail Still Has Working HTML Version
Date		Monday September 08 2014, @12:28AM
Author		Subsentient
Topic
from the old-ways-are-the-best-ways dept.

https://dev.soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/09/08/0425251

The Gmail team developed an alternate HTML-only version because Paul Buchheit, the person credited as being the Gmail inventor thought that "Gmail's reliance on AJAX was so scary". The HTML version works to this day.

Is there a big audience that would actually look for an HTML-only version of Gmail? Maybe mobile users on ill-supported platforms? In any case it's interesting to remember what was it (somewhat) like ten years ago when Gmail first launched.

Links

"acapulco" - https://dev.soylentnews.org/~acapulco/
"alternate HTML-only version" - http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/
" Paul Buchheit" - https://plus.google.com/+PaulBuchheit/posts
""Gmail's reliance on AJAX was so scary"" - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+LouisGray/posts/epGfV7kqhDv
"ten years ago when Gmail first launched" - http://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/