As everyone knows, innovation is pretty much Google’s middle name. The Google dev team has done it again. If you are a web designer/developer, you’ll be sure to appreciate this more than the general mass that Google’s plethora of tools cater to. Stopdesign recently published an article that gave the timeline and history of their new button system that can be seen now on GMail. The kicker is that these buttons are completely imageless and scalable. All that was required was a little ingenuity, some CSS and some Javascript.

Image courtesy of stopdesign

The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes.

To read the full article, head on over to Recreating the button.