I know this is old news, but I’m going to blog about it anyway as I don’t want to forget it. I love the Gmail gradient buttons and the fact that they do not use images makes it about one thousand times better in my view.
When I say end, I mean the end of his involvement. If you view the source of Gmail or any other google app that used the technique, you will see a few changes from what Douglas created.
I certainly didn’t create the concept of custom buttons at Google. Nor did I write the final code that made it into production. I merely initiated a couple steps to improve the methods we use to render custom buttons. My portion of the iteration is what’s documented here. There were many other steps in making these buttons a reality.
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