Nice! So Vanessa is guilty of. TREASON[enter dramatic chipmunk]

James, Shes been hung.

Sweet, I just noticed I have the newer version link in the top corner of my gmail account. This will be fun to play with. :)

Google needs to use mootools library, not it's own

PINE! Amazingly, it is a very fast, efficient email application.

Then again, I cut my teeth in the business world on DEC VT terminals, so I've always had a soft spot for character-based apps....

At 700 – 800 emails a day, I guess you better use a good subject line if you want her to read your email.

Martin:
Is "Google.com is DOWN!!!" a good enough subject line? :)

>(...) the Gmail team has been to hell and back several times
>over the course of this project

That's why I'd love to work there. Who else visits hell to boost a progam's speed?! My gosh!

(JK)

Wow, Hell and back! So it _does_ exist!

Hmmmm. Gmail has switched to the newer version within the last 20 minutes and so far, I do not experience faster behaviour. quite the opposite, it takes a little while to switch labels and so on. Let's see and wait about improvements.

But the emails are prefetched and they are quicker to view

Gmail started warning me about using Firebug:

http://laurenty.blogspot.com/2007/11/gmail-and-firebug.html