Basic JavaScript covers the JavaScript language and programming techniques needed to develop dynamic, interactive Web sites. Developers are using JavaScript to include functionality in HTML pages.

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 updated a Gmail support article to say that the basic HTML view for Gmail will be discontinued in January 2024.

The Basic HTML function was helpful for people dealing with a slow internet connection but wanted to read their email.