Adapting code, let Gmail move toward future

Filed under: Google Blackboard — Wrote by Lees on Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 @ 10:02 pm

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When Gmail was released 2004 Internet and present very different, the expectation value of the user is different, the function of the browser is not quite perfect, the professional term with the visible now everywhere on software engineer resume is nonexistent still also at that time.

In the past in 3 years of time of half, we released early or late a few very the character of cruel: Conformity of the chatting conformity of deepness, documentation of song of speech mail, cereal and free recently IMAP. Inside this paragraph of time, we learned a lot of concerned compose to build the knowledge that large network uses not only, the functional play that also understands a network browser can appear to acme what circumstance.

So, gmail group is undertaking the code of sex of a structure is innovated recently, will be in a few weeks of henceforth inside face Firefox 2 and IE7.0 user to roll out (the version that faces other browser also will be rolled out in succession) . At the beginning you perhaps won’t see too much difference, but we been usinging a brand-new model, help of in order to realizes rapidder change to add, share certain component (we use as identical as Groups and Page Creater rich text editor and processing of the contact in seeing at other a few kinds of Gu Ge apply now implement etc) what everybody will see is other a few kinds of new character, include new shortcut key and the bookmark number that make for specific message and mail search to wait.

We are seeking rate close to enthusiastically all the time. Although be on fast Internet, request and open a new webpage to want time one second only, but if need to read many post, accumulate those who be record in a few hours in mail process possibly of a second of these time to await. Gu Ge had spent what a large number of time apply to this to undertake deliberate partly individually, as long as likely, the time of one thousandth second also wants a province to come down, try to solve current browser to use a few medium confirmed issues at the same time. Most a few operations that often use should become faster now. For example, we lade beforehand on current view message, open a mail when you so when, the browser needs to have a conversation with Gu Ge’s server no longer, display message directly however. These techniques give prize especially on more new-style browser and computer. Gu Ge used the alpha edition of Safari 3 on MacBook, open new message place to need time to still be less than 200 millisecond so (0.2 seconds) , quite fast still.

But a side-effect of this kind of change uses some kind of tripartite when you namely when Gmail is patulous, they stop to move likely. Gu Ge and current the developer of more popular a few patulous programs undertook communication, hope they can develop relevant patch. After asking authority, the examination casts the net go up to be updated. We worry about such doing to may cause a few inconvenience, but can do his best make such change so not abrupt.

Our group will roll out more achievement, ask everybody static Hou Jiayin.

Update (on November 9) : Although Gu Ge (provider of other like great majority service is same) , do not expand to the tripartite such as Greasemonkey script provide official support, dan Gu song realizes, the user with active great majority hopes to write and run them. Because these script amend the code that the network serves directly, is not the API that uses a kind of stability, although be opposite,so network application code undertakes very small alter also meet those who affect them move (interior applies possibly even to produce Bug in the network)

To resolve the difficulty of Greasemonkey user, we joined an experimental Gmail Greasemonkey API recently, reduce this type script write difficulty, enhance them to get used to ability to what code alternates. (pay attention to please: Apply to the user that had installed Greasemonkey script only - if ” Greasemonkey ” the mechanical thing that can allow you to associate to a wide of the mark only, then can need not be anxious for it)

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