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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

Go to http://mail.google.com/mail/h and when asked, 'set basic HTML as 
default view' according to one website.  (The other websites would not 
talk to me without javascript).  This should eliminate the need for HTML5 
and but you still need SSL.  The pages should also load much faster.

This is also called 'classic' gmail.  When I signed up I chose it. It does 
not provide Google Docs (for reading MS-formatted attachments), 'rich 
text' (for sending html or rtf?), spellchecker, chat, and keyboard 
shortcuts.  Why should keyboard shortcuts need javascript or HTML5???

Sindi

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, TLMaiden AT aol.com wrote:

> I am running BL3.5 and attempting to use the Links2ssl as provided by the
> BL page on distro.ibiblio.org.  I can enter my ID and password into gmail
> but then it goes to a blank page with 3 or 4 lines at the top labeled
> "iframe".  Clicking on the first one causes a very long download to  begin.
> Clicking on the others causes a slight delay and then the screen  goes back to
> "OK" but displays nothing.  Attempting to access via another  OS and older
> browser I see that Google now insists on the latest versions of the  popular
> browsers.  A screen comes up that said "Your browser is obsolete or
> unsupported.  Please download and install one of these popular browsers  
> now."  The
> list of browsers shown includes all the usual suspects.   Something called
> "HTML5" along with Javascript is what it wants now.