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Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by mjevans »

bzbarsky wrote: post #83
frenchie4111 wrote: post #34

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Is gmail RAM-hungry due to styling?

Mostly due to JavaScript, though styling can be a problem too; the gmail stylesheets have a huge number of rules (over 10,000), with a fair amount of duplication in them. For example, gmail has about 4600 rules that all set a background-image of "//ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-7f9d3a5045813584f828fe69a1fecb77.png" according to " rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397971#c0> . You can see…

I wonder how much longer it'll be before we re-invent the wheel yet again and mobile things actually have cached library version hell like Windows DLLs became? Are we already there (or is it too optimistic for me to assume that the /exact/ same version of a library can be referenced and de-duplicated)?

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by ngrilly »

agmcleod wrote: post #56
euyyn wrote: post #54

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I'm biased here, but after Inbox, and after the mobile Calendar apps being upgraded, I was super excited about the web Calendar upgrade. I love it.

I generally like Inbox as well, feels faster than gmail. Though i've recently gone back to using a local client instead of the web. It's a bit of a change, but just feels simpler to use.

Which local client do you use? Do you download all your emails locally? What about search?

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by nitrogen »

bzbarsky wrote: post #83
frenchie4111 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is gmail RAM-hungry due to styling?

Mostly due to JavaScript, though styling can be a problem too; the gmail stylesheets have a huge number of rules (over 10,000), with a fair amount of duplication in them. For example, gmail has about 4600 rules that all set a background-image of "//ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-7f9d3a5045813584f828fe69a1fecb77.png" according to " rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397971#c0> . You can see…

has about 4600 rules that all set a background-image of "//ssl.gstatic.com/chat/emoji/png28-...

Is that possibly a sprite sheet with different background position for each rule?

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by stinky613 »

unwind wrote: post #88
stinky613 wrote: post #70

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Excel 2016 integrated PowerQuery features and improved upon the data model tools. Going back further, Excel v1 thru v7 was limited to 2^14 rows (16,384); v8 (10yrs after v1) thru v11 upped that to 2^16 rows (65,536); v12 (20yrs after v1) thru current can handle 2^20 rows (1,048,576). Windows 10 is faster and more secure than any consumer version of Windows ever released; PowerShell (slow to start up and verbose, thou…

2^14 is not 65536, it's just 16384.

D'oh! Right you are!

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by stinky613 »

kbenson wrote: post #90
stinky613 wrote: post #75

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I like Inbox, and I use it...but have you noticed that, stunningly, you can search for things in Inbox and get zero results and then take that same search into _gmail_ and get results?? (Unfortunately, no, I don't have an example I can demonstrate extemporaneously)

Inbox doesn't search hangouts conversations, which is a huge annoyance for me. You can load gmail and search and get those results, so it's annoying that you can't get it in Inbox. Other than that, I really prefer Inbox.

Isn't it kind of crazy that gmail is the ONLY place you can search Hangouts chat history??

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by olyjohn »

joombaga wrote: post #93
SubiculumCode wrote: post #16

The update doesn't seem to be rolled out to me yet.

It's on the G Suite blog, so I'm guessing it's for G Suite users first/only at this point.

Except the article says: "And if you use Calendar for personal use, click “Use new Calendar” in the upper righthand corner of the main Calendar view to get started."

Went to my calendar, and this isn't there at all. And will I get the option to go back, or is the old calendar dead?

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by applecrazy »

stinky613 wrote: post #96
kbenson wrote: post #90

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Inbox doesn't search hangouts conversations, which is a huge annoyance for me. You can load gmail and search and get those results, so it's annoying that you can't get it in Inbox. Other than that, I really prefer Inbox.

Isn't it kind of crazy that gmail is the ONLY place you can search Hangouts chat history??

I didn’t even know that was a thing until today, and I’ve been using Gmail for a decade.

Re: The new Google Calendar for web

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Post by stephengillie »

stephengillie wrote: post #66
on_and_off wrote: post #46

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Oreo let's you granularly modify notifications. Not much help if you are stuck on an older release, but it has been really useful to me so far !

Oreo is available. I will upgrade after work. Thanks for the reminder.

Oreo can't download, and there is no error message to troubleshoot. https://i.imgur.com/Uw0uIPU.png
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