This time the scythe is coming for one of the company’s oldest features—Gmail’s basic HTML view. In January 2024, that simple interface heads for the great beyond.

Google has quietly announced that it will pull the plug on the basic HTML version of Gmail starting in 2024. We’re writing to let you know that the Gmail Basic HTML view for desktop web and ...

Don’t worry, it’s beyond simple to use. This notepad trick works because of HTML’s “contenteditable” attribute that can turn any part of a web page into an interactive area for editing text.