Try out the new iPad gmail UI in Safari

If you use Safari1, you can easily tell gmail that you are on an iPad and see the new gmail user interface for iPad.

In Safari Preferences, navigate to the Advanced tab and check “Show Develop menu in the menu bar”

Load gmail.com in a new tab or window.

In the Develop menu, navigate to the “Other” option at the bottom of the User Agent sub-menu

Enter “Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU iPad OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16”

Refresh the gmail.com page

Enjoy!

1. You can do this with any HTML 5 capable browser.