New at Gmail Labs: Calendar and Docs Gadgets
Gmail developers decided that they need to be given the opportunity to use to diversify the web interface. Soon, each of us will receive in its location a whole set of various gadgets. Each of them can be connected with one click of the mouse (more precisely, by entering a URL of the form www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_videos.xml ), and it will immediately go to the left panel in the mail interface. They started with the Google Calendar and Google Docs gadgets.
According to the developers, this functionality is most demanded by Gmail users who want to see the schedule of their Google Calendar daily from the mailbox, as well as use the search box for Google Docs documents.

Programmers claim that they are obsessed with gadget performance, so in the future they will by no means slow down the system, as it is now.
Official Gmail Blog
According to the developers, this functionality is most demanded by Gmail users who want to see the schedule of their Google Calendar daily from the mailbox, as well as use the search box for Google Docs documents.

Programmers claim that they are obsessed with gadget performance, so in the future they will by no means slow down the system, as it is now.
Official Gmail Blog