David Ansermot Web Developer / TYPO3 Integrator

Google announced the integration of Gmail in HTML5

During the 2010 Usenix WebApps Boston, Adam Boor, an engineer at Google, has announced that Gmail would incorporate new functionalities for HTML 5.The goal of development teams is to reduce the loading time of pages of online messaging. With HTML 5, it should drop below the second.

The use of CSS3 instead of Document Object Model (FOD) should lead to such a gain of 12% in rendering service pages.

Listed functionalities, the gradual adoption of future standard by the major browsers should also allow the generalization of drag and drop attachments from the desktop to the window messaging. Adam Boor unveiled the feature contrast, drag and drop from the browser to the desktop, is also being investigated but that it would not be achieved through HTML 5 but with a new data transfer protocol internally dubbed "DownloadURL".

Early confirmation Google thinks very hard about HTML 5 (and its application cache) to replace Gears. The Cache application can use the browser's cache to work offline with an application such as Cloud originally hosted. There is such need to be logged in (e) to write text in Google Docs (see also "Google Docs: more features").

Until Gmail operated the proprietary technology of Google Gears. The mail then migrate progressively towards the use of these "super cookies" HTML 5. For the record, Adam de Boor has also revealed that the Gmail program consisted of 443,000 lines of JavaScript. A figure rises to almost 980,000 lines if it adds the comments.

For those who wonder whether the use of Java to build such a service could not have been more appropriate, Adam de Boor said that yes, this technology might have been more optimized but that language was ultimately more "wordy" than JavaScript.

For him, most criticisms to JavaScript does not come from other language itself, but how it is implemented in browsers.

He concluded that the most important issue was ultimately not much choice of Java or JavaScript but how to produce the best possible code based on the language used.

No timetable or roadmap, however, have been given concerning the integration of HTML 5 in Gmail.

Source : developpez.com