Gmail’s mobile website loads 100 KB of JavaScript, while the desktop site loads over 3 MB.
Once the HTML version kicks the bucket in a few months, I plan to switch to the mobile website on desktop (via UA string spoofing). I just need a basic UI to read and write mostly text messages. I don’t want a bloated web app that loads for multiple seconds. I am being serious. The loading screen genuinely annoys me.
On the web, you have to jump through hoops to get great performance.
@krinkle I really only care about how how fast it renders the inbox. Gmail HTML version renders in less than 1 second. It’s literally as fast as it could possibly be considering that it loads from a web server. It takes less time to load my inbox in the browser than it takes to switch to a different tab in macOS system settings. Because I know such a speed exists, any mail app that makes me wait several seconds is annoying.
@simevidas the mobile app is not nearly as configurable as the desktop one . I barely use the mobile one since I cannot configure it to NOT set an email as read as I open it 😑
@simevidas The message, sorry. I want to be able to "mark as read" explicitly (I want to "process" an email when I have time, and I want to leave them "to read"). Only possible on the web - afaik
@caludio Ah yes, I also don’t like it that my email client eagerly marks the message as read when I only take a quick look. On Gmail’s mobile website, the Mark as Unread button is located in the sub-menu, so it takes two clicks to use it. One click would be better, but I can live with that.
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