Some other enhancements: Gmail loads faster, there's a floating toolbar that includes options like archiving or reporting spam and the interface is more consistent.
"When we make it broadly available, people are going to see this as the first HTML 5 mobile application. It'll be like Gmail in 2004. It was a great watershed moment for Ajax apps," said Google's Vic Gundotra last week. While mobile Gmail is not the first web application that takes advantage of HTML 5 features, it's one of the pioneers.
There's also a new version of Google Calendar that lets you edit events and has an option to cache previously-viewed events. Both updated applications work only for iPhone OS 2.2.1+ and all Android phones.
Does anybody know how did they manage to get the scrollTop under the iPhone's Safari to make that 'Floaty bar' work? That attribute is buggy and always return zero for HTML and BODY.
ReplyDeleteIt's not available for me yet sadly, I'm on iPhone 2.2.1 and have cleared out the Safari cache but still when I go to gmail.com I only get the old version. - Anyone else having the same problem?
ReplyDeleteI seem to have problems viewing inline graphics in this new version, which wasn't there in the old...
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ReplyDeleteI needed a similar floaty-bar thing and this post came up before the google result, so for anyone who's looking for the floaty bar:
ReplyDeletehttp://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/09/gmail-for-mobile-html5-series-css.html