When Internet search engine giant Google launched its free 1GB email service, Gmail on April 1, 2004, they did so without support for Apple Computer Inc.'s Safari Web browser. The browser requirement page on the company's Web site lists several compatible browsers for the beta of Gmail, but Safari is still not among them. All of that will change before Gmail is available to the public, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Brin noted that he was "embarrassed" that Gmail's beta doesn't support Safari, but said that they will add Safari support before its public release. "We're going to make it work with Safari and that's one of the high priority things," Brin told MacCentral. "I’ve heard that you can sort of get it to work if you're desperate. I want to fix that, and I want to make it work really well."
News source: MacCentral
Brin noted that he was "embarrassed" that Gmail's beta doesn't support Safari, but said that they will add Safari support before its public release. "We're going to make it work with Safari and that's one of the high priority things," Brin told MacCentral. "I’ve heard that you can sort of get it to work if you're desperate. I want to fix that, and I want to make it work really well."
News source: MacCentral
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The website that google make should be compliant with the latest HTML/coding standards and then it should be up to the makers of safari or other independent browsers to fix the issues with reading the website.
Also, I don't understand the purpose of 1GB of email, to me it seems a bit obvious it'll just be used by people to upload mp3s/mp4s/xvid/divx to each other.
What would be the purpose of providing pop3 access, it would detract from users seeing the ads on the site, therefore they would probably also send spam mail every so often, which would be annoying.
Who actually needs a gigabyte though? assuming the content is just text you would have maybe 20kb per file, that's approximately 50,000 emails, that's way too many emails for any one person to effectively manage anyway and people probably couldn't fill it.
It sounds like an advertising gimic to me and I suspect that the filespace will be scaled down or they'll enforce the accounts quite strictly to stop certain file types being sent, although people can always rename the files or rar/encrypt them.
Last edited by 4205 on 27 Apr 2004 - 10:34
The truth of the matter is that GMail isn't compliant with web standards in some ways, and even the parts that are, use methods that are known not to work across browsers. Browser makers shouldn't have to tailor their product to work with specific sites if the said browsers work according to web standards. It is the web site developers that should be making sure their site works in the major browsers and functions according to web standards.
Safari sucks. It's slow, buggy, and hardly fullfeatured.
Comano is much better. Even OS X FireFox 1-ups Safari.
http://mozilla.org/products/camino/
http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Last edited by 27230 on 26 Apr 2004 - 15:29
This is a nice case of open-mindedness and kindness from Google
You seem to forget that the internet is supposed to be platform-independent.
Last edited by 47883 on 27 Apr 2004 - 04:35
But then we'd be back to HTML 3.2 to support people still using old 3.0 and 4.0 browsers.
The point here should be that Google has knowingly locked themselves into an incompatible design that requires extra work to be usable in various browsers.
Roadwarrior is spot on about the internet. Props to ya, totally agree. i've found since using a Mac, i've appreciated open standards and good coding a hell of a lot more.
and this is wierd i have to say
Neowin is cool on most major browsers
fjv.
I expect better from Google. GMail is an awesome mail application, but it has some shortcomings that could have easily been avoided.
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