Google is killing Gmail’s Basic HTML View in early 2024

Article note: This caused me to think. Remember when a little bit of judicious JS to do small updates on the client made pages seems super fast compared to doing a bunch of network roundtrips in the early 2000s? Notice how now connections are only slightly faster (only slightly lower latency, typical bandwidth has improved more) and most JS pages are so bloated they consume enough resources to be the limiting factor on otherwise-usable computers, which has made static HTML pages seem startlingly fast while typical JS-heavy pages are sluggish? It's quite an indictment of where the web has gone. Plus, we lost local presentation control/structure (for theming and alternative displays and screen readers and such) in the process.