Comments on: GMail reaches 6 Gigs well before time

By: Arul

Arul — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:24:25 +0000

@Akki: When you visit the Gmail website, there is an initial value for the total bytes Gmail is offering us (Google refers to it as variable ‘quota’). For some reason, it is set to this decimal value 2757.272164.

You can see it here in the HTML source code:
2757.272164 megabytes

And then, there’s a JavaScript function (updateQuota) that updates this number (variable ‘quota’) every second as soon as the page is loaded.

Google folks forgot to change the initial value from 2757.272164. But one second after visiting the page, that value changes to 6000+ and increases bit by bit.

Someone might want to tell them about changing this initial value. YCR?

By: Arul

Arul — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:24:00 +0000

You can see it here in the HTML source code:
2757.272164

And then, there’s a JavaScript function (updateQuota) that updates this number (variable ‘quota’) every second as soon as the page is loaded.

Google folks forgot to change the initial value from 2757.272164. But one second after visiting the page, that value changes to 6000+ and increases bit by bit.

Someone might want to tell them about changing this initial value. YCR?

By: Chittaranjan

Chittaranjan — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:44:07 +0000

Thatz all techie stuff

But if u try, u can also understand! The Code has a timeout statement innit! So after waiting for 1 sec, the new code kicks in and hence we see the old space initially and then the new space!

By: lazybug

lazybug — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:43:57 +0000

I did not understand even a bit of what Arul said.

By: Chittaranjan

Chittaranjan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:37:29 +0000

@Akki: Thatz what I too said

@Arul: U solved it! Hooray…..

By: lazybug

lazybug — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:29:25 +0000

When u open gmail.com login page, for the first few seconds the storage space will be around 3gb and then in allofasudden it goes to 6 gb.

By: Arul

Arul — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:22:12 +0000

The answer is in the HTML source code. It reads like this:

—–
2757.272164 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you’ll never need to delete another message.
—–

1000 milliseconds (one second) later it starts updating the count as is evident in the JavaScript code:

—–
setTimeout(updateQuota, 1000);
—–

By: Chittaranjan

Chittaranjan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:28:29 +0000

Which one? The 2~6 Transition or the entire ‘6 GB Storage’ idea

By: Harsh J

Harsh J — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:20:25 +0000

Its all an illusion! It is!