52 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail
should be confident now that Gmail is not an enormously complex and incompre-
hensible application that instills fear into your heart: It’s just very complex, slightly
incomprehensible, and not at all scary.So, now you’ve started to delve into Gmail’s workings. The next chapter moves
beyond the surface and shows you how your browser communicates with the
Gmail server, how the interface is put together, and how Gmail actually works.
You’ll be using many of the same techniques as you did in this chapter but to a
much greater depth. Put the kettle on, make some coffee, and let’s go.