Today, I was forced to use the GMail website to fix a problem I was having with messages. I don't care what people say. It's absolutely atrocious and headache-inducing. It's also overly and needlessly complicated, and yes, that includes all the little shortcuts, turning NVDA browse mode off, etc. I switched to Thunderbird 102 when they shut down the Basic HTML site. But today, I thought of something very interesting. Third party clients can access GMail. Why couldn't someone recreate the Basic HTML site, either as a site that retrieves e-mail or as a web application? Apparently, someone already made a concept demonstration of it.

GitHub - tumaranja/my-basic-html-gmail: This is a project based on Foundational HTML course at http://www.foundationalhtml.com/.

This is a project based on Foundational HTML course at http://www.foundationalhtml.com/. - tumaranja/my-basic-html-gmail

GitHub (github.com)

I've also heard that screenshots have been taken of the original pages. If someone could do this, it would be wonderful for the blind community. Yes, Thunderbird works, but sometimes, it's simpler and quicker to just use the site. What I don't know, though, is if setting could be changed that way. I imagine that searching for messages would still work.

Now, if only someone could bring back the Mobile Youtube site from 2017! That was also wonderful and useful, unlike the modern mess!

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@dandylover1 Of course, GMail website is atrocious since they removed basic HTML. I tend to avoid it at all costs and use Outlook for it.