Gmail's New look

8th November 2007

Gmail's become more beautiful !

I have always been an ardent fan of Google and its products. One of the best products ever made available (free) on the internet by any company is Gmail.

The very idea of Gmail was awesome. There was a time when people were having serious problems with speed and space of their inbox. Thatz when Gmail stormed in. Armed with a mind blowing and virtually unlimited storage space of 1GB, improved spam filters and a whole new perspective to e-mailing, it blew every internet user's minds away, almost immediately

Enough of history.

The changes very much visible to the user

1) The loading pages have changed
Earlier it used to be a "simple" Loading, followed by a Loading with red highlighting. Well the trademark red-highlighed "loading" is gone. Substituted with a Google-cross-platform loading tag. Yellow-highlighted Loading message at the top-middle of the page.

2) Faster !
Gmail's now quicker than ever. It prefetches the messages. Its visibly faster. Earlier it used to take quarter of a second (!) to load a mail. Now its simply isn't there ! Its really quick

3) Contact pages revamped. (see screenshot #1)
Contact pages now is more ajaxy, with contact searches happening as you type. Provision to provide more info like phone number and address is a really cool idea !









4) Hover frame of chat changed (see screenshot#2)
This refers to a lil frame that appears when you pause your mouse at the contacts on the chat thingy. Its now changed and looks more organised. I'm hoping to see a lil more changes here









The new interface is not that perfect. It wasn't even loading yesterday. And by today afternoon, the pages were loading only to see the chat thingy stuck !. Now everything seems to be up and running thou' I do get a null response when I click here and there (the older version got perfect with the ajax responses over the time..). Hope Gmail team's on it and would clear up all the "bugs" and take us all to a new e-mail experience !!

-I'd remember this day, the day the new Gmail was rolled out !

jeff