"We have things that we can do much more efficiently in HTML5," said De Boor, speaking Thursday at the Usenix WebApps '10 in Boston.
"HTML5 is exciting to me insofar as to how many browser makers are adopting it," he said, adding, "I have high hopes for ."
One of the chief benefits he pointed to is how the standard could speed the loading and execution time of Gmail.
Google's current goal is to get Gmail to load in under a second. "Speed is a feature," he said.